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Saranac Lake

2018 · 29 min

A hushed, dreamlike chamber piece that drifts between illness and longing, asking you to sit with its quiet strangeness.

Directed by: Maxence Vassilyevitch
Genres: Science fiction
Starring: Jacques Nolot, Nathalie Richard, Caroline Deruas

Overview: Saranac Lake is a sanatorium in which five characters are curing from a weird disease ; they cannot feel any emotion anymore. As a consequence, they cough and spit blood. The only cure ? To suceed in writing a love letter... or to die.

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Directed by: Maxence Vassilyevitch
Genres: Science fiction
Starring: Jacques Nolot, Nathalie Richard, Caroline Deruas

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 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: love
isolation
death
identity
healing
Places: hospital
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	4
Humour	2
Realism	5
Romance	5
Tension	5
Darkness	7
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: science fiction
Directed by: Maxence Vassilyevitch
Written by: Maxence Vassilyevitch
Starring: Jacques Nolot, Nathalie Richard, Caroline Deruas, Francesco Calabrese, Anthony Devaux, Abel Sarfati
Cinematography: Manuel Marmier
Runtime: 29 min
Languages: French

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