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Los pernoctantes

64 min

A quiet, unflinching immersion into unhoused lives, where the rush of city traffic presses against fragile private worlds and the slowness of watching becomes its own form of attention.

Directed by: Hernán Khourián, Ángeles Casares
Genres: Documentary

Overview: As the only possibility of survival, or as a form of escape, four people live in the streets of the City of Buenos Aires. Under a highway or at the door of an official theater, they build a strange habitat, where their intimacy is mixed with the rapid routine of urban traffic.

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Directed by: Hernán Khourián, Ángeles Casares
Genres: Documentary

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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 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: isolation
survival
politics
class
loneliness
Places: big city
road trip
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Horror	2
Humour	2
Realism	9
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Tension	5
Darkness	7
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	8

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