Short film

MOR

2024 · 28 min

A quiet, aching weekend by the sea, heavy with things left unsaid between a mother and her grown son.

Directed by: Tom Austen
Genres: Drama, Family
Starring: Trine Dyrholm, Ruaridh Mollica, Carla Philip Røder

Overview: A mother and her son arrive at a remote seaside cottage to celebrate his eighteenth birthday. A cottage they have not visited for many years now. Over the course of a weekend, they seek to find a connection with each other once again. But a connection that they may have ultimately lost forever.

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Directed by: Tom Austen
Genres: Drama, Family
Starring: Trine Dyrholm, Ruaridh Mollica, Carla Philip Røder

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
grief
isolation
parenthood
memory
Places: single country house
sea
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	0
Horror	0
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	0
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	8

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