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Arest

2019 · 126 min

A slow, suffocating plunge into interrogation-room dread, where bureaucratic menace and moral unease grind you down over two long hours.

Directed by
Andrei Cohn
Genres
Drama
Overview
In August 1983, architect Dinu Neagu together with his wife and two children, a boy and a girl, are on a beach of nudists near an industrial area. He is arrested and taken to Bucharest police office, where he is imprisoned in a cell together with Vali, a collaborator of the Security Service.
How it feels
Tense, bleak, dark and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About
Power, isolation, guilt, morality
Content
Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
Note
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Directed by
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Genres
Drama
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Era
period
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Andrei Cohn
Written by
Andrei Cohn
Starring
Alexandru Papadopol, Iulian Postelnicu, András Hatházi
Runtime
126 min
Country
Romania
Languages
Romanian

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