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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

2015 · 93 min

A stylish, disorienting thriller that keeps you off-balance as reality blurs, with a dreamlike unease and a slow-burning mystery.

Directed by
Joann Sfar
Genres
Thriller, Drama, Crime
Starring
Freya Mavor, Stacy Martin, Benjamin Biolay
Overview
She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. The lady in the car has never seen the sea. On the run from the police, she keeps telling herself that she’s not crazy… Only...

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Directed by
Joann Sfar
Genres
Thriller, Drama, Crime
Starring
Freya Mavor, Stacy Martin, Benjamin Biolay
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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • deception
  • mystery
  • betrayal
  • isolation
Places
  • road trip
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror2
Humour3
Realism6
Romance3
Tension7
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
thriller, drama, crime, mystery
Directed by
Joann Sfar
Written by
Gilles Marchand, Patrick Godeau
Starring
Freya Mavor, Stacy Martin, Benjamin Biolay, Elio Germano, Thierry Hancisse, Sandrine Laroche, Frederic Etherlinck, François-Dominique Blin
Music
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Cinematography
Manuel Dacosse
Runtime
93 min
Country
France, Belgium
Languages
French

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