The Smell of Us
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, measured, measured drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Self-destructive teens go skateboarding, use drugs and turn tricks in Paris.
Our read · The Smell of Us (2015) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic 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 Smell of Us
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Larry Clark's raw explicit look at bored Parisian skate teens selling sex and drugs.”
Skip it tonight — You want positive youth films or object to graphic teen sex and substance use.
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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