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Personal Growth

2019 · 24 min

A grainy, wordless drift through windswept coastal imagery that feels like a half-remembered home movie, hypnotic and quietly unsettling.

Directed by
Maximilian Le Cain, Vicky Langan
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Vicky Langan, Maximilian Le Cain
Overview
"Personal Growth" is a Super-8 film work, an enigmatic, fragmented piece that could have been filmed at any point in the past sixty years. It conveys the haunting charge of a privately made home movie of great significance to its creators but unsettlingly mysterious to viewers. Its grainy, black and white texture vividly renders the elemental coastal seascapes where it was filmed. Langan & Le Cain appear as a couple who inhabit this wild terrain as if it were a domestic arena.

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Directed by
Maximilian Le Cain, Vicky Langan
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Vicky Langan, Maximilian Le Cain
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • isolation
    • identity
    • nature
    Places
    • sea
    • countryside
    Era
    timeless
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • nonlinear
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror3
    Humour0
    Realism6
    Romance2
    Tension3
    Darkness5
    Complexity8
    Emotional weight5

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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Maximilian Le Cain, Vicky Langan
    Starring
    Vicky Langan, Maximilian Le Cain
    Runtime
    24 min
    Country
    Ireland
    Languages
    No Language

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