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The Story of Marie and Julien

2003 · 150 min

A slow, hypnotic plunge into love and loss, where the everyday quietly gives way to something ghostly and tender.

Overview: Julien is a clockmaker with destructive impulses who decides to blackmail Madame X, a rich, attractive woman who traffics in stolen antiques. What he doesn’t know is that she has an even more dangerous secret that leads him to Marie, with whom he had fallen in love a year earlier.
How it feels: Melancholic, eerie, romantic and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Love, memory, death, obsession
Content: Strong sexual content. Mild violence and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 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: love
memory
death
obsession
identity
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
twist ending
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong