Movie

Ariel

2025 · 108 min

A slow, disorienting plunge into an island where theatre and reality blur, asking you to surrender to its dreamlike logic.

Overview: An actress goes to Azores to take part in the theatrical tour of The Tempest and on her arrival she finds no one from the company, there is not even a theatre. After meeting Ariel, the actress discovers that the play has already started, the whole island is a theatre and its inhabitants are characters.
How it feels: Eerie, whimsical, melancholic and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Identity, art, isolation, mystery
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 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: identity
art
isolation
mystery
madness
Places: countryside
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild