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2018 · drama · social

At War

Directed by Stéphane Brizé1h 45m2018
ElsewhereIMDb7.02kRT68%Metacritic61TMDB7.0182
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • intense
  • bleak
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme drama / social, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.

Our read · At War (2018) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · social entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic 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 a stark French drama about workers fighting a sudden factory shutdown.

ends devastatingit leaves you shakensteady all the waygrips by minute 20attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if long debates or subtitles on labor politics feel draining 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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