Natural Born Liar
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / martial-arts, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Jerome, 35, is a yacht salesman in Nice. But if you listen to him, in his spare time Jerome is also an astronaut, a karate world champion and a close friend of Miss Universe. As a matter of fact Jerome is a compulsive liar: he lies to everyone about everything! No one believes him, but that doesn’t prevent him from accumulating more lies. But one day Jerome wakes up to find out that all his lies have come true... and it’s just the beginning of the troubles ...!
Our read · Natural Born Liar (2022) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · martial-arts · space 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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The shape of Natural Born Liar
What watching it is actually like.
“You want silly French farce where a compulsive liar's fabrications come to life.”
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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.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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