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Name in the Dark

2013 · 97 min

A quiet, brooding drama that drifts between past and present, heavy with regret and small-town secrets.

Overview
A small town investigator's memories about a tragic love for her music teacher always come back. After the town is shaken by a teenage girl murder, where the main suspect is her ex-lover, investigator is taking the case.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • grief
  • love
  • mystery
  • guilt
Places
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour1
Realism8
Romance4
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Agnė Marcinkevičiūtė
Starring
Neringa Varnelytė, Deimena Drąsutytė, Jurgita Jurkutė, Gintaras Liutkevičius, Gediminas Storpirštis, Aistis Mickevičius, Elvyra Žebertavičiūtė, Darius Auželis
Cinematography
Feliksas Abrukauskas
Runtime
97 min
Country
Lithuania
Languages
Lithuanian

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