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Down by Love

2016 · 110 min

A quiet, sombre romance that unfolds behind bars, trading melodrama for restraint and a slow sense of doomed inevitability.

Directed by
Pierre Godeau
Genres
Drama, Romance
Starring
Guillaume Gallienne, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Stéphanie Cléau
Overview
A man, a woman. A prison director, his inmate. An impossible love, a true story.

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Directed by
Pierre Godeau
Genres
Drama, Romance
Starring
Guillaume Gallienne, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Stéphanie Cléau
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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • love
    • power
    • betrayal
    • isolation
    • freedom
    Places
    • prison
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • true story
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour1
    Realism8
    Romance6
    Tension5
    Darkness6
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight7

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    Details

    Genres
    drama, romance
    Directed by
    Pierre Godeau
    Written by
    Pierre Godeau
    Starring
    Guillaume Gallienne, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Stéphanie Cléau, Aliénor Poisson, Cyrielle Martinez, Selma Mansouri, Sabila Moussadek, Marie Rivière
    Music
    Robin Coudert
    Cinematography
    Muriel Cravatte
    Runtime
    110 min
    Country
    France
    Languages
    French

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