Movie

Dark Holiday

1989 · 100 min

A mounting sense of helpless dread as an ordinary vacation curdles into a foreign nightmare of bureaucracy and confinement.

Overview: American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she is cast into prison for smuggling an antique.
How it feels: Tense, dark, bleak and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Isolation, survival, justice, power
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: tensestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
survival
justice
power
deception
Places: prison
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: true story
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild