Skylab (2011) poster
2011 · comedy · drama · space

Skylab

Directed by Julie Delpy1h 53m2011
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  • warm
  • gentle
  • tender
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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It is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate the birthday of her grandmother. Everyone thinks that the Skylab space station from NASA will fall on their heads this summer. The meeting turns into a crazy weekend full of revelations, love and song.

Our read · Skylab (2011) reads as a cosy, steady, grounded comedy · drama · space 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 nostalgic French family comedy of a 1979 summer gathering.

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

Skip it tonightYou dislike ensemble family chaos or period pieces.

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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