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Tête brûlée

2014 · 38 min

A quiet, enclosed reunion that asks patience, letting small gestures and silences carry the weight of years apart.

Overview
A few days of reunion between Francis, an absent father, and Valentine, his twenty five-year-old daughter, shut in an apartment in which he has been hospitalised for years.

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How it feels

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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
    • family
    • isolation
    • parenthood
    • aging
    • healing
    Places
    • home
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror0
    Humour1
    Realism8
    Romance0
    Tension4
    Darkness5
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight7

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    Details

    Directed by
    Valentine Carette
    Runtime
    38 min

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