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Nine Days

2021 · 124 min

A quiet, haunting meditation that asks you to sit with questions of life and death long after it ends.

Directed by
Edson Oda
Genres
Drama, Fantasy
Starring
Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Benedict Wong
Overview
A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.

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Directed by
Edson Oda
Genres
Drama, Fantasy
Starring
Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Benedict Wong
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 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
  • identity
  • morality
  • death
  • isolation
Places
  • single country house
  • wilderness
Era
timeless
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism4
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama, fantasy
Directed by
Edson Oda
Written by
Edson Oda
Starring
Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Benedict Wong, David Rysdahl, Arianna Ortiz, Tony Hale, Bill Skarsgård, Perry Smith
Music
Antonio Pinto
Cinematography
Wyatt Garfield
Runtime
124 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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