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Utopia

1979 · 92 min

A quiet, dislocated drift through an emptied city, heavy with heartbreak and the strange stillness of loss.

Overview
After getting painfully separated from the woman he loves, Julien leaves his apartment. He goes in search of his old friends but no one is to be found and the city is silent.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 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
  • grief
  • isolation
  • loneliness
  • love
  • memory
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism6
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Iradj Azimi
Written by
Iradj Azimi
Starring
Laurent Terzieff, Dominique Sanda, Jean Dasté, Gérard Blain, Anne-Marie Deschodt, Catherine Gauvreau
Music
Patrice Holiner, Henri-Michel Raschle
Cinematography
Étienne Becker
Runtime
92 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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