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A Messy Tribute to Motherly Love

2026 · 85 min

A surreal, slow-burning descent into grief and absurdity, where emotional overload becomes literal and village life turns strange.

Overview: When people literally explode from emotional overload, grief is just the beginning. A wildly surrealist charade in which a bereaved man, his friend and mother spiral through village life.
How it feels: Absurd, dark, melancholic and whimsical. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Grief, family, death, madness
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: absurdstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
family
death
madness
isolation
Places: small town
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild