Taste
- sombre
- slow-burn
- surreal
- signature
- intimate
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama / arthouse, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Bassley, a Nigerian footballer living in Vietnam, has been unable to make a living since he broke his leg. He and four middle-aged women he sometimes works for decide to escape the disappointment of their daily lives. They go to an old house where together they create a special world for themselves. But this intimate utopia cannot last forever.
Our read · Taste (2021) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, surreal drama · arthouse · berlin entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent 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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The shape of Taste
What watching it is actually like.
“You want slow, sensual, wordless Vietnamese cinema exploring loneliness and makeshift community.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if slow cinema or explicit nudity in quiet films puts you off.
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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