Movie

Hard Times

1988 · 90 min

A sombre, slow immersion into industrial drudgery and social constraint, austere and literary in mood.

Overview: A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
How it feels: Bleak, melancholic, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Class, power, education, family
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
power
education
family
morality
Places: small town
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild