Joint Custody (2017) poster
2017 · comedy · music

Joint Custody

Directed by Alexandra Leclère1h 33m2017
ElsewhereIMDb5.51k
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • intimate
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Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A wife finds out her husband has a mistress. She decides to propose her to share her life with her husband, alternating every two weeks.

Our read · Joint Custody (2017) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · music entry — gentle 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 quirky French comedy about an unusual solution to infidelity.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou prefer conventional romcoms or find polyamory setups uncomfortable.

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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