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2014 · comedy

Babysitting

Directed by Nicolas Benamou, Philippe Lacheau1h 25m2014
ElsewhereIMDb6.813k
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • intimate
  • funny
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Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Looking for a baby-sitter for the night, Marc Schaudel entrusts his son Remy to the care of his employee Franck, a straight man. But the thing that Marc doesn't know, is that Franck is getting 30 years old this weekend and that his son Remy is a very capricious child. The next day, Marc and his wife Claire are awakened by a call from the police. Remy and Franck are missing, and the house is totally devastated. The police finds a camera in the leftovers. Marc, Claire and the police start watching the video that has been recorded the day before during the night and find out what happened to Franck and Remy.

Our read · Babysitting (2014) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate 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 raunchy French found-footage chaos from a babysitting night gone spectacularly wrong.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upcringe humiliationdrug usenuditychild peril

Skip it tonightYou need subtitles or hate gross-out party comedy with kids caught in the mess.

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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