Movie

Personal Problems

1980 · 165 min

A slow, intimate experimental soap opera that immerses you in everyday emotional textures with a demanding, lingering pace.

Overview: An “experimental soap opera” centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover.
How it feels: Melancholic, earnest, tense and warm. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Family, love, identity, isolation
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
warmstrength 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: family
love
identity
isolation
race
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild