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The Afterglow

2014 · 98 min

A slow, uneasy plunge into damaged minds, where intimacy feels dangerous and every memory is a threat.

Directed by: Joan Álvarez, Yolanda Torres
Starring: Paul Coster, Claudia Trujillo, Sarah Tyler Shaw

Overview: Oliver is a writer whose personal life was marked by a sinister childhood encounter: his sexual awakening at the hands of a dead girl. When Oliver's path crosses Laura's, an enigmatic girl seeking refuge as she tries to recover her memories, destroyed in an apparent suicide attempt, dark secrets threaten to destroy them both.

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Directed by: Joan Álvarez, Yolanda Torres
Starring: Paul Coster, Claudia Trujillo, Sarah Tyler Shaw

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: trauma
memory
obsession
identity
isolation
Places: single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	5
Humour	1
Realism	5
Romance	4
Tension	6
Darkness	8
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	7

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