Movie

The Landlady

1958 · 78 min

A slow, oppressive descent into psychological unease, where cramped rooms and unspoken tensions suffocate like a bad dream.

Overview: Vassili Mikhailovich Ordynov, a poor and reclusive young man, must look for new accommodation. By chance, he meets a middle-aged man, Mourine, and a young woman, Catherine, who accepts him as a sub-tenant...
How it feels: Dark, bleak, melancholic and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Isolation, obsession, identity, madness
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 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: isolation
obsession
identity
madness
loneliness
Places: home
big city
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild