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Phantom Islands

2018 · 86 min

A hypnotic, disorienting drift through rugged landscapes that blurs fact and fiction, demanding patience but rewarding with visceral unease.

Directed by: Rouzbeh Rashidi
Genres: Drama, Documentary
Starring: Daniel Fawcett, Clara Pais

Overview: Phantom Islands is an experimental film that exists at the boundary of documentary and fiction. It follows a couple adrift and disoriented in the stunning landscape of Ireland’s islands. Yet this deliberately melodramatic romance is constantly questioned by a provocative cinematic approach that ultimately results in a hypnotic and visceral inquiry into the very possibility of documentary objectivity.

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Directed by: Rouzbeh Rashidi
Genres: Drama, Documentary
Starring: Daniel Fawcett, Clara Pais

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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
romanticstrength 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
identity
memory
love
nature
Places: countryside
sea
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	1
Realism	6
Romance	3
Tension	4
Darkness	5
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	6

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