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Les Vacances

A quiet, chilly drift through lonely lives in a sweltering city, leaving a lingering ache.

Directed by
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Genres
Drama
Overview
Les Vanarrates tells the story of those old men and women who dwell alone in cold relationships and die in the summer heat of Paris.

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Directed by
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 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
  • isolation
  • loneliness
  • aging
  • death
  • family
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism7
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Written by
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Country
France

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