Hector and the Search for Happiness
- warm
- brisk
- redemptive
Warm, kinetic, gentle adventure / drama, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.
Our read · Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive adventure · drama · comedy 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 globe-trotting fable about happiness told with Simon Pegg charm.”
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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