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Death Watch

1980 · 131 min

A slow, somber plunge into voyeurism and mortality, watching a woman's last days become a spectacle through unblinking eyes.

Directed by: Bertrand Tavernier
Genres: Drama, Science fiction
Starring: Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton

Tagline: She's the target of every eye… including eyes only science could create.
Overview: In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.

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Directed by: Bertrand Tavernier
Genres: Drama, Science fiction
Starring: Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 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: death
media
isolation
exploration
morality
Places: big city
countryside
Era: near-future
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Horror	3
Humour	2
Realism	7
Romance	3
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama, science fiction
Directed by: Bertrand Tavernier
Written by: David Rayfiel, Bertrand Tavernier
Starring: Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Thérèse Liotard, Max von Sydow, Caroline Langrishe, William Russell, Vadim Glowna
Music: Antoine Duhamel
Cinematography: Pierre-William Glenn
Runtime: 131 min
Country: France, Germany
Languages: English, French, German

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