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Once a Year

2012 · 80 min

A quiet, intimate two-hander that unfolds in hushed hotel rooms, letting long-buried feeling surface slowly between two people.

Genres
Drama
Overview
A man and a woman meet once a year in different hotel rooms. Their passionate love affair has been going on for 30 years. But this year things have happened in their lives, things that might change everything.
How it feels
Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About
Love, aging, memory, identity
Content
Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
Note
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    Places
    None
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism8
    Romance7
    Tension4
    Darkness4
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight7

    Cast

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    Gorki Glaser-Müller
    Written by
    Gorki Glaser-Müller
    Starring
    Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Gunilla Röör
    Cinematography
    Carl P. Rasmussen
    Runtime
    80 min
    Country
    Sweden
    Languages
    Swedish

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