Vortex (2016) poster
2016 · drama · arthouse

Vortex

Directed by Bastien Jephté1h 56m2016
  • sombre
  • measured
Movie DNA

Sombre, measured, measured drama / arthouse, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Vortex (2016) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · arthouse entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured 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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You want raw Haitian-Quebec voodoo fantasy far outside the mainstream.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 18attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightYou need polished effects and hate subtitled slow-burn genre films.

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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