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The Struggle

2019 · 17 min

A quiet, suffocating plunge into a woman's isolation and a love that diminishes her, ending in a jolt of fear.

Directed by
Mirko Rigon
Genres
Drama
Starring
Elisa Billi, Nicola Pecci
Overview
She is a mute 30 years old woman, with a very few contacts with the outside world, whose life is divided between a job she despises and a tormented love story. Her lover is 20 years older and he has a wife and a daughter. We meet the two protagonist inside his car, after a sexual encounter. She is upset because unsatisfied by the terms of their relationship, but he is not able to meet her requests of starting a new life together. Their love story keeps suffering from ups and downs, until she finds the courage to end it facing his violent reaction.

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Directed by
Mirko Rigon
Genres
Drama
Starring
Elisa Billi, Nicola Pecci
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • love
  • betrayal
  • power
  • trauma
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour0
Realism8
Romance5
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Mirko Rigon
Starring
Elisa Billi, Nicola Pecci
Cinematography
Matteo Laguni
Runtime
17 min
Country
Italy
Languages
Italian

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