Movie

Labour of Love

2015 · 81 min

A quiet, wordless immersion into a couple's daily grind, where small routines and fleeting closeness carry the weight of an entire relationship.

Overview: Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.
How it feels: Melancholic, warm, earnest and bleak. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Isolation, love, work, class
Content: No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 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
love
work
class
survival
Places: big city
workplace
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none