Movie

Without

2011 · 88 min

A quiet, spare, quietly unsettling watch that sits with loneliness and guilt in near silence, rewarding patience but offering little comfort.

Overview: On a remote wooded island, a young woman becomes caretaker to an old man in a vegetative state. Her isolated routine devolves into a struggle with sexuality, guilt and loss.
How it feels: Melancholic, bleak, tense and eerie. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Isolation, grief, guilt, sexuality
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Full breakdown

Tone: bleakstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
eeriestrength 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
grief
guilt
sexuality
loneliness
Places: wilderness
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild