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God's Crooked Lines

2022 · 155 min

A twisty, claustrophobic puzzle that keeps you guessing about what is real and what is delusion.

Directed by: Oriol Paulo
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Bárbara Lennie, Eduard Fernández, Loreto Mauleón

Overview: Alice Gould, a private investigator, pretends to be mentally ill in order to enter a psychiatric hospital and gather evidence for the case she is working on: the death of a patient in unclear circumstances.

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Directed by: Oriol Paulo
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Bárbara Lennie, Eduard Fernández, Loreto Mauleón

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Tone: tensestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 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
madness
deception
isolation
memory
Places: hospital
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Action	4
Horror	3
Humour	2
Realism	6
Romance	2
Tension	8
Darkness	7
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, mystery, thriller
Directed by: Oriol Paulo
Written by: Guillem Clua, Oriol Paulo
Starring: Bárbara Lennie, Eduard Fernández, Loreto Mauleón, Javier Beltrán, Pablo Derqui, Federico Aguado, Adelfa Calvo, Antonio Buíl
Music: Fernando Velázquez
Cinematography: Bernat Bosch
Runtime: 155 min
Country: Spain
Languages: Spanish

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