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The World to Come

2021 · 105 min

A quiet, aching immersion into frontier loneliness and forbidden tenderness, where every glance and silence carries the weight of unspoken longing and loss.

Directed by: Mona Fastvold
Genres: Romance, Drama, Western
Starring: Katherine Waterston, Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby

Overview: In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.

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Directed by: Mona Fastvold
Genres: Romance, Drama, Western
Starring: Katherine Waterston, Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
isolation
love
identity
betrayal
Places: countryside
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	7
Tension	5
Darkness	7
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: romance, drama, western
Directed by: Mona Fastvold
Written by: Jim Shepard, Ron Hansen
Starring: Katherine Waterston, Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby, Christopher Abbott, Kim Ciobanu, Daniel Blumberg, Andreea Vasile, James Longshore
Music: Daniel Blumberg
Cinematography: André Chemetoff
Runtime: 105 min
Country: France, Romania, Russia, United States of America
Languages: English

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