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Life Is Elsewhere

2014 · 83 min

A quiet, heavy drama that sits with dying people and hard choices, leaving you sombre and thoughtful rather than entertained.

Overview
Davood is a nurse's aide who helps emergency's patients. Now he himself is going to die by cancer. Meanwhile, his ex-wife's husband is going to be executed because of drug smuggling.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 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
  • death
  • grief
  • morality
  • family
  • guilt
Places
  • hospital
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Where to watch in the UK

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Manouchehr Hadi
Starring
Hamed Behdad, Parsa Pirouzfar, Niki Karimi, Yekta Naser
Runtime
83 min
Country
Iran

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