Brothers of the Wind (2015) poster
2015 · adventure · drama · family · monster

Brothers of the Wind

Directed by Otmar Penker, Gerardo Olivares1h 38m2015
ElsewhereIMDb6.83k
  • warm
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • tender
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Warm, steady, gentle adventure / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The way of the eagle is to raise two chicks. The stronger is destined always to throw the weaker from the nest. Man also has his ways, often to hurt those closest to him. Lukas suffers at the hands of a father who has withdrawn since the loss of his wife. Killed whilst rescuing the infant Lukas, the boy now carries the burden of her death. Our eagle’s story begins in the nest. The first-born chick pushes his weaker brother to a certain death on the forest floor. But fate intervenes and the chick is found by Lukas. Naming him Abel, Lukas cares for the creature in secret, finding a love and companionship denied to him at home. But when the day comes to release Abel back into the wild, will Lukas find his own release into a new life?

Our read · Brothers of the Wind (2015) reads as a warm, steady, grounded adventure · drama · family entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive 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 gentle family story of a boy and an eagle in the Alps.

ends bittersweetit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 20attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want fast pace or anything urban.

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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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