My Love (2006) poster
2006 · animation · drama · romance

My Love

Directed by Aleksandr Petrov26m2006
ElsewhereIMDb7.92k
  • sombre
  • measured
  • gentle
  • signature
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Sombre, measured, gentle animation / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.

Our read · My Love (2006) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive animation · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. 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 beautiful paint-on-glass animation of a boy's first loves in old Russia.

ends bittersweetit stays with youmeditativegrips by minute 8attention 4/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want modern stories or dislike slow artistic animation.

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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