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Microhabitat

2018 · 105 min

A quiet, bittersweet drift through friends' couches, balancing gentle humour with a growing ache of displacement.

Tagline
Whiskey and cigarettes, the only ways of keeping her dignity in this city.
Overview
Miso lives from day to day by housekeeping. Cigarettes and whiskey are the two things that get her through the day. As cigarette prices and rent start to rise, Miso decides to give up her house for cigarettes and whiskey, leading her to couch surf with old friends while reconsidering her place in life.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 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
  • friendship
  • class
  • identity
  • survival
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour4
Realism8
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Jeon Go-woon
Written by
Jeon Go-woon
Starring
Esom, Ahn Jae-hong, Kang Jin-ah, Kim Guk-hee, Lee Sung-wook, Choi Deok-moon, Kim Jae-hwa, Cho Soo-hyang
Music
Kwun Hyun-jeong
Cinematography
Kim Tae-soo
Runtime
105 min
Country
South Korea
Languages
Korean

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