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LOTUS

2024

A quiet, inward-looking film that sits with a teenager's unhappiness and slowly lets friendship ease it.

Directed by
Lionel Manfredi
Genres
Drama
Starring
Lionel Manfredi, Nora Moser, Léandre Joerin
Overview
Ange, a rigorous and sensitive teenager, starts his first year in high school. Profoundly unhappy, he starts writing to try to understand himself. While doing so, he befriends three teens who will help him on his path to inner peace.

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Directed by
Lionel Manfredi
Genres
Drama
Starring
Lionel Manfredi, Nora Moser, Léandre Joerin
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 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
  • identity
  • loneliness
  • friendship
  • coming-of-age
  • healing
Places
  • school
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Lionel Manfredi
Written by
Lionel Manfredi
Starring
Lionel Manfredi, Nora Moser, Léandre Joerin, Laura Kennedy, Geneviève Pasquier, Benjamin Knobil
Cinematography
Gabriel Delarageaz
Languages
French

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