A Thousand Times Good Night (2013) poster
2013 · drama · music

A Thousand Times Good Night

Directed by Erik Poppe1h 51m2013
ElsewhereIMDb7.08kRT71%Metacritic57
  • sombre
  • measured
Movie DNA

Sombre, measured, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca – one of the world’s top war photojournalists - gets badly hurt. Back home, another bomb drops as her husband and daughters give her an ultimatum: her work or her family.

Our read · A Thousand Times Good Night (2013) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want Binoche torn between war photography and motherhood, played honestly.

ends ambiguousit stays with youbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips from the openattention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencechild peril

Skip it tonightWar-zone violence and maternal guilt feel too heavy before bed tonight.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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