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Folks

2012 · 19 min

A quiet, fragmentary glimpse into three adrift lives, leaving you to piece together who they are from small, uneasy moments.

Directed by
Frédéric Guelaff
Starring
Adèle Haenel, Juliette Lamboley, Christophe Reymond
Overview
Through this short window open on a two days into the life of the characters you have to guess who they are and from where they have come from. There is this lonely male character, mostly pathetic, this bored women in the middle of a painful lame life, this naive actress in search of her soul mate.

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Directed by
Frédéric Guelaff
Starring
Adèle Haenel, Juliette Lamboley, Christophe Reymond
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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
    • isolation
    • loneliness
    • identity
    Places
    None
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism8
    Romance3
    Tension3
    Darkness5
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Directed by
    Frédéric Guelaff
    Starring
    Adèle Haenel, Juliette Lamboley, Christophe Reymond, Faustine Tournan
    Runtime
    19 min
    Country
    France
    Languages
    French

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