C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) poster
2005 · drama

C.R.A.Z.Y.

Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée2h 6m2005
ElsewhereIMDb7.834kRT100%Metacritic81TMDB7.5510
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Neutral, steady, measured drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.

Our read · C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama entry — measured 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 a music-soaked Quebec saga about growing up queer and Catholic.

ends bittersweetyou’ll feel glowing aftera slow buildgrips by minute 18attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnuditydrug use

Skip it tonightSkip if two-hour subtitled family drama feels like homework 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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