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That Which Does Not Kill

2019 · 83 min

A quiet, unflinching documentary that sits with painful memory and asks the viewer to listen closely rather than look away.

Directed by
Alexe Poukine
Genres
Documentary, Drama
Overview
Ada is 19. She agrees to have dinner at the home of a boy she knows. It all happens very quickly, she does not defend herself. It is in 2013, after a screening of her first film, that Alexe Poukine meets her: a woman of her age who shares with her something that happened nine years before and that she does not know what to do with.

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  • DocAlliance Films
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Directed by
Alexe Poukine
Genres
Documentary, Drama
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • trauma
    • identity
    • memory
    • gender
    • power
    Places
    None
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • true story
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex strong
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror2
    Humour0
    Realism9
    Romance1
    Tension5
    Darkness7
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight9

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary, drama
    Directed by
    Alexe Poukine
    Written by
    Alexe Poukine
    Cinematography
    Elin Kirschfink
    Runtime
    83 min
    Country
    Belgium, France
    Languages
    French

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