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Macadam Stories

2015 · 100 min

A gentle, bittersweet mosaic of lonely lives briefly connecting, mixing quiet humour with tender melancholy.

Directed by
Samuel Benchetrit
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Isabelle Huppert, Gustave Kervern, Tassadit Mandi
Overview
Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.

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Directed by
Samuel Benchetrit
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Isabelle Huppert, Gustave Kervern, Tassadit Mandi
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • loneliness
  • found family
  • friendship
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism6
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy
Directed by
Samuel Benchetrit
Written by
Samuel Benchetrit, Gábor Rassov
Starring
Isabelle Huppert, Gustave Kervern, Tassadit Mandi, Jules Benchetrit, Michael Pitt, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Mickaël Graehling, Larouci Didi
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
100 min
Country
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Languages
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