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Boy

2014 · 20 min

A claustrophobic, unsettling descent into solitude that weighs on you long after its short runtime ends.

Directed by: Bruno Gascon
Genres: Drama
Starring: Duarte Grilo

Overview: What happens when you're alone? It's just another day in his life and he thinks he's a good, good boy. Boy is a short film directed by Bruno Gascon and features Duarte Grilo as a man who is trapped in a house. It's a heavy film, a psychological thriller about a deprivation of liberty and what happens when we get too much time alone.

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Directed by: Bruno Gascon
Genres: Drama
Starring: Duarte Grilo

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Tone
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
madness
survival
Places: single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	5
Humour	0
Realism	7
Romance	0
Tension	7
Darkness	8
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Bruno Gascon
Written by: Bruno Gascon
Starring: Duarte Grilo
Cinematography: Carlos Melim
Runtime: 20 min
Country: Portugal

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