Sometimes in April (2005) (2005) poster
2005 · drama · history · war

Sometimes in April (2005)

Directed by Raoul Peck2h 20m2005
ElsewhereTMDB7.185
  • heavy
  • extreme
  • bleak
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Heavy, steady, extreme drama / history, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Our read · Sometimes in April (2005) (2005) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · history · war entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes 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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You want a graphic, unflinching account of the Rwandan genocide's human toll.

ends devastatingit will wreck yousteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: partial
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Skip it tonightYou want entertainment or can't handle mass atrocity depictions.

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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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