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The PhD

2020 · 20 min

A squirm-inducing dinner date where one lie snowballs into awkward, funny, and painfully relatable chaos.

Directed by
Maxime S. Girard
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Félix Emmanuel, Charles-Aubey Houde, Zoé Lajeunesse-Guy
Overview
A romantic dinner turns into a ludicrous disaster when Bruno, an anxious psychology student, has to lie to his control-freak boyfriend about what really happened during his PhD's entrance interview earlier that day.

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Directed by
Maxime S. Girard
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Félix Emmanuel, Charles-Aubey Houde, Zoé Lajeunesse-Guy
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • deception
  • identity
  • coming-of-age
  • love
  • betrayal
Places
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour7
Realism7
Romance4
Tension6
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Maxime S. Girard
Written by
Maxime S. Girard
Starring
Félix Emmanuel, Charles-Aubey Houde, Zoé Lajeunesse-Guy
Cinematography
François Herquel
Runtime
20 min
Country
Canada
Languages
French

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