For Those Who Can Tell No Tales (2013) poster
2013 · drama

For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

Directed by Jasmila Žbanić1h 12m2013
ElsewhereIMDb6.4356TMDB4.54
  • heavy
  • measured
  • intense
  • bleak
Movie DNA

Heavy, measured, measured drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

How every film is hand-scored →

Kym, an Australian tourist, decides to travel to Bosnia. Her guidebook leads her to Višegrad, a small town steeped in history, on the border of Bosnia and Serbia. After a night of insomnia in the 'romantic' Hotel Vilina Vlas, Kym discovers what happened there during the war. She can no longer be an ordinary tourist and her life will never be the same again.

Our read · For Those Who Can Tell No Tales (2013) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate 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.

Where the cast leads
Where to watch
All options on JustWatch

Availability in the UK · via JustWatch

More info & search links
Fingerprint

The shape of For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

Tonight, this looks like

What watching it is actually like.

You want a restrained drama of an outsider forced to face wartime atrocities and denial.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakensteady all the waygrips by minute 18attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if stories of genocide, rape camps and historical silence feel too heavy tonight.

If For Those Who Can Tell No Tales is your film
DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

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
Your take
Rate it
star-clip-1-0star-clip-2-0star-clip-3-0star-clip-4-0star-clip-5-0
React
Discussion

Discussion

cmd enter to post

What does your Movie DNA look like?

Rate a few films you've seen. We map your taste across the same twelve axes and find the films you'll actually want to watch tonight.

Calibrate yourself