The Ladies Get Their Say (2009) poster
2009 · drama

The Ladies Get Their Say

Directed by Enzo Monteleone1h 34m2009
ElsewhereIMDb6.5416
  • measured
  • gentle
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Neutral, measured, gentle drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Every Thursday a group of ladies would gather to play cards and discuss their loves, lives and children while their daughters played in the next room. Thirty years later, the daughters meet at a funeral for one of the mothers. Like their mothers, they discuss their hopes, dreams and fears.

Our read · The Ladies Get Their Say (2009) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama 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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You want intimate Italian conversations among women on life and family.

ends warmyou’ll feel glowing aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 12attention 2/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want male leads or high-stakes plot driven films.

If The Ladies Get Their Say is your film
The Joy Luck Club (1993)
generational women sharing stories
(Asian American immigrant focus)
Steel Magnolias (1989)
close women friends through milestones
(more American Southern melodrama)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
women's friendships and reflections
(framed with mystery plot)
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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