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Le Centre du monde

2024 · 12 min

A quiet, tense slice of life that follows a vulnerable woman through a hostile landscape, leaving you anxious and moved.

Directed by: Margaux Rivière, Coline Rivière
Genres: Drama
Starring: Loubna Abidar, Rémy Leboucq, Coline Rivière

Overview: An exiled woman, alone and pregnant, crosses the French-Spanish border. Will she manage to catch the train to Perpignan station, which Salvador Dali called "The Centre of the World", on a line that is now under heavy surveillance?

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Directed by: Margaux Rivière, Coline Rivière
Genres: Drama
Starring: Loubna Abidar, Rémy Leboucq, Coline Rivière

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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
survival
immigration
identity
loneliness
Places: countryside
road trip
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	6
Darkness	6
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Margaux Rivière, Coline Rivière
Written by: Coline Rivière, Margaux Rivière
Starring: Loubna Abidar, Rémy Leboucq, Coline Rivière, Jean-Luc Rehel
Cinematography: May Abadi-Grebler
Runtime: 12 min
Country: France
Languages: French

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