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Slipstream

2007 · 96 min

A disorienting, dreamlike puzzle that blurs reality and fiction, demanding patience and offering an unsettling, surreal experience.

Directed by: Anthony Hopkins
Genres: Fantasy, Drama
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Stella Arroyave, Lana Antonova

Overview: Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his characters start to appear in his life, and vice versa.

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Directed by: Anthony Hopkins
Genres: Fantasy, Drama
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Stella Arroyave, Lana Antonova

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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 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: identity
memory
madness
art
death
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	2
Humour	5
Realism	3
Romance	2
Tension	5
Darkness	7
Complexity	9
Emotional weight	6

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