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Skipper Straad

2003 · 38 min

A quiet, melancholic slice of life that immerses you in a stranded seaman's loneliness and quiet longing.

Directed by
Irini Vachlioti
Genres
Drama
Overview
A seaman finds himself out of work and stranded in a distant port. He shares a cheap room. They take turns sleeping, some in the morning, some at night. Grief! When he will go back to sea? And there! The scent of woman drifts up to seduce him! He realizes he had shared his bed with a lady of the night.

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Directed by
Irini Vachlioti
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • grief
  • survival
  • identity
  • loneliness
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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