The Death of Cinema and My Father Too
- sombre
- measured
Sombre, measured, measured drama / father-son, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →When Yoel hears about an imminent Iranian military attack on Tel Aviv, he knows what to do - escape with his family to a safe haven in Jerusalem. His son Assaf, who is a filmmaker and about to become a father himself, wants to give Yoel one last lead role in his movie by melting the fictional world into bittersweet reality.
Our read · The Death of Cinema and My Father Too (2020) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · father-son · meta entry — measured 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 The Death of Cinema and My Father Too
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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