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Detachment

2011 · 98 min

A heavy, sorrowful watch that sits with you long after, full of quiet despair and fleeting moments of tenderness.

Directed by
Tony Kaye
Genres
Drama
Overview
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

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Directed by
Tony Kaye
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 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
  • isolation
  • trauma
  • grief
  • education
  • parenthood
Places
  • school
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour1
Realism8
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness9
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Tony Kaye
Written by
Carl Lund
Starring
Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, James Caan, Christina Hendricks, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner, Tim Blake Nelson, William L. Petersen
Music
Andrew Grush, Taylor Stewart
Cinematography
Tony Kaye
Runtime
98 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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