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Swimming

2018 · 101 min

A slow-burning, uneasy plunge into obsessive teenage friendship, where intimacy curdles into something dangerous and hard to shake.

Directed by
Luzie Loose
Genres
Drama
Starring
Stephanie Amarell, Lisa Vicari, Alexandra Finder
Overview
Elisa and Anthea support each other through the difficulties of adolescence. But their innocent friendship soon turns into co-dependency and to maintain their cohesion, they develop a dangerous game with a camera. Eventually, their game turns them from victims into offenders.

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Directed by
Luzie Loose
Genres
Drama
Starring
Stephanie Amarell, Lisa Vicari, Alexandra Finder
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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • obsession
  • friendship
  • coming-of-age
  • morality
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour2
Realism8
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Stephanie Amarell, Lisa Vicari, Alexandra Finder, Jonathan Berlin, Bjarne Meisel, Deborah Kaufmann, Christian Heiner Wolf, Aurelia Selene Schäfer
Cinematography
Anne Bolick
Runtime
101 min
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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