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Tales of Ordinary Madness

1981 · 101 min

A grimy, boozy drift through dive bars and bad decisions, beautiful and sad, leaving a lingering ache.

Overview
Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • addiction
  • isolation
  • love
  • grief
  • art
Places
  • big city
  • sea
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour3
Realism8
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Marco Ferreri
Written by
Anthony Foutz, Marco Ferreri, Sergio Amidei, Charles Bukowski
Starring
Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Susan Tyrrell, Tanya Lopert, Roy Brocksmith, Katya Berger, Hope Cameron, Judith Drake
Music
Philippe Sarde
Cinematography
Tonino Delli Colli
Runtime
101 min
Country
Italy, France
Languages
English

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