Movie

Papa

2024 · 130 min

A quietly devastating, memory-fractured study of a father's grief that asks for patience and rewards it with profound emotional honesty.

Tagline: How far can a father's love go?
Overview: A 15-year-old boy murders his mother and sister. The father, Nin Yuen, returns to his cafe, haunted by memories of a once-happy family: his wife preparing breakfast, his son playing video games, and his daughter caring for their calico cat. Yuen finds himself unable to hate the living or forget the dead. As they confront life’s cruelty, will Yuen and his son’s strained relationship ever find redemption?
How it feels: Melancholic, dark, earnest and bleak. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Grief, family, guilt, memory
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 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: grief
family
guilt
memory
redemption
Places: big city
home
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild