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Lowlife

2012 · 99 min

A slow, disorienting plunge into isolation and hallucination, where the line between body and soul blurs in a remote, unsettling landscape.

Tagline: The absolute dead centre of nowhere.
Overview: A lonely musician's descent into the shadowy world of a living drug leads to a mysterious island where a battle of body and soul is waged.
How it feels: Dark, eerie, melancholic and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Isolation, addiction, identity, madness
Content: Strong violence, gore and language. Mild sexual content.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 3 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
addiction
identity
madness
survival
Places: small town
countryside
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex mild