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All Foreigners Keep Their Curtains Closed

2020 · 83 min

A tender, bittersweet coming-of-age story that captures the awkwardness and longing of teenage love with honesty and warmth.

Directed by
Ingvild Søderlind
Genres
Drama
Starring
Karen Øye, Serhat Yildirim, Cengiz Al
Overview
Mariana (15) is annoyingly in love with the school's badboy, Ali2, but he is occupied with the only blonde in Romsås.

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Directed by
Ingvild Søderlind
Genres
Drama
Starring
Karen Øye, Serhat Yildirim, Cengiz Al
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • love
  • identity
  • friendship
  • isolation
Places
  • suburbs
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
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
Horror0
Humour4
Realism8
Romance6
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
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Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
83 min
Country
Norway
Languages
Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish

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