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Portrait

2014 · 27 min

An elusive, theatrical puzzle where reality and performance blur, leaving you unsettled and searching for meaning alongside its wandering protagonist.

Directed by
Wojciech Tubaja
Overview
The story is set in a hotel environment where the main Character meets various people in different hotel rooms and gets involved with their private drama instigates it. The drama turns out to be somehow conducted by the female director, also one of the persons that the main Character meets in a hotel. The plot revolves around subjects of love, youth, death and ones persona and shows the main Character hopelessly trying to figure out the definition of self by means of desperately looking for real emotions in people and himself and channeling them through theatrical form. Will the main Character finally discover who he really is?
How it feels
Melancholic, eerie, tense and cynical. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About
Identity, obsession, love, death
Content
Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
Note
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Directed by
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How it feels

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Full breakdown
Tone
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour3
Realism5
Romance4
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity8
Emotional weight7

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