Broken Mirrors (1984) poster
1984 · drama · feminist · thriller

Broken Mirrors

Directed by Marleen Gorris1h 48m1984
ElsewhereIMDb6.6271TMDB6.012
  • heavy
  • intense
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, steady, extreme drama / feminist, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Diane and Dora are two prostitutes who begin to rebel against their lot in life. Meanwhile, in another part of town, a murderer is at large.

Our read · Broken Mirrors (1984) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · feminist · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold 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 unflinching feminist drama about sex work and patriarchal violence.

ends devastatingit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 18attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditygraphic violencesuicide theme

Skip it tonightYou want light entertainment or cannot handle graphic abuse depictions.

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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