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Desert Suite

2024 · 85 min

A slow, drifting journey through empty rooms and quiet encounters that leaves you unsettled and thoughtful.

Directed by: Fabrizio Ferraro
Genres: Drama
Starring: Gianmaria D’Alessandro, Rachele Roggi, Cécile Delamere

Overview: A young man crosses Europe in search of a new Ithaca. Disillusioned with his own country, he moves from a meager grape harvest in arid Banyuls-sur-mer to Brussels and a seductive, if wistful, encounter with a young woman there. Lastly, he hides out in a soulless suite in a Rotterdam skyscraper, where, like an angel of death, he sets in motion a grisly game seasoned with drugs and a digital daz

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Directed by: Fabrizio Ferraro
Genres: Drama
Starring: Gianmaria D’Alessandro, Rachele Roggi, Cécile Delamere

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
darkstrength 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: isolation
identity
loneliness
obsession
death
Places: road trip
big city
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	3
Tension	5
Darkness	7
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Fabrizio Ferraro
Written by: Fabrizio Ferraro
Starring: Gianmaria D’Alessandro, Rachele Roggi, Cécile Delamere, Francesco Pesci, Manuel Di Vecchi Staraz, Ullamp, Marco Fellini, Antonio Sinisi
Runtime: 85 min
Country: Italy
Languages: Italian, French

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