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The Rhapsody

2008 · 29 min

A quiet, unsettling chamber piece that blurs creative obsession with hallucination, asking you to lean in and puzzle out what is real.

Directed by
Max Cusimano
Genres
Music, Mystery, Romance
Starring
Rutger Hauer, Nick Bennett, Katherine Pawlak
Overview
Exasperated at being stuck on a piano Rhapsody he's been writing for seven years, Sol pushes himself over the edge, having an hallucination of a mysterious young woman. Soon, Sol discovers that he has brain tumors, and a risky operation is his only means of survival. Initially deciding to go through with the surgery, things change when he meets Sofia, the woman from his vision. She urges Sol not to have the operation because the tumors aren't what they seem. Unable to fathom her strange appearance, he starts out to discover the nature of these events - unearthing what The Rhapsody really is.

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Directed by
Max Cusimano
Genres
Music, Mystery, Romance
Starring
Rutger Hauer, Nick Bennett, Katherine Pawlak
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • art
  • madness
  • death
  • faith
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour1
Realism5
Romance3
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
music, mystery, romance
Directed by
Max Cusimano
Written by
Max Cusimano
Starring
Rutger Hauer, Nick Bennett, Katherine Pawlak, Teddy Vincent, Philip Adkins, Tibor Ambra, Margaux Amie, Kelli Joan Bennett
Runtime
29 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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