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Le Pays des ours

2003 · 29 min

A quiet, unsettling drift through three disconnected lives, heavy with unspoken despair and moral fog.

Overview: The desperate wandering of three persons at bay. Gérard Maubuisson, a fifty-six-year-old firm manager, decides to close up shop and to leave his wife. Geneviève Maubuisson, his wife, goes round in circles in her apartment, at a loss for news from him. There is also Henri, a disillusioned surgeon, who sleeps with the wives of some of his patients and conducts illegal euthanasia...

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Tone: bleakstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
darkstrength 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: isolation
grief
betrayal
morality
identity
Places: big city
home
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	4
Darkness	7
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Jean-Baptiste Léonetti
Written by: Jean-Baptiste Léonetti
Starring: Aurélien Recoing, Jenny Arasse, Dominique Paturel, Frédéric Quiring, Jean-Pierre Andréani
Music: Evgueni Galperine
Cinematography: David Nissen
Runtime: 29 min
Languages: French

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