Lord, Give Me Patience (2017) poster
2017 · comedy

Lord, Give Me Patience

Directed by Álvaro Díaz Lorenzo1h 31m2017
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  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • intimate
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Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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An ultraconservative family father must spend a weekend with his dysfunctional children for the burial of his wife.

Our read · Lord, Give Me Patience (2017) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy 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 raucous Spanish comedy about family dysfunction and burial.

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Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightYou dislike crude family humor or conservative clashes.

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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