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Tear It Down

2022 · 30 min

A quiet, talk-heavy chamber piece that captures the tension between political urgency and personal inertia.

Directed by
Baptiste Bogaert, Noëlle Bastin
Genres
Drama
Starring
Noé Riché-Simon, Manon Dupeyrat, Chiara L’Houmeau-Caporiccio
Overview
In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college essay. Caught in the virtual images and the comfort of her bedroom, going out is harder than expected.

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In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.
Directed by
Baptiste Bogaert, Noëlle Bastin
Genres
Drama
Starring
Noé Riché-Simon, Manon Dupeyrat, Chiara L’Houmeau-Caporiccio
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 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
  • politics
  • class
  • friendship
  • identity
  • isolation
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Baptiste Bogaert, Noëlle Bastin
Written by
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Starring
Noé Riché-Simon, Manon Dupeyrat, Chiara L’Houmeau-Caporiccio, Paula Kvasnikoff
Cinematography
Adrien Heylen
Runtime
30 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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