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The Woman in the Fifth

2011 · 84 min

A slow, disorienting descent into a lonely man's fragile mind, where romance and menace blur in a cold, alienating Paris.

Directed by: Paweł Pawlikowski
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Joanna Kulig

Tagline: What you can not resist, you may not survive
Overview: An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.

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Directed by: Paweł Pawlikowski
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Joanna Kulig

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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 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: madness
isolation
obsession
identity
grief
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: unreliable narrator
twist ending
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong

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Action	2
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	4
Tension	7
Darkness	8
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	7

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