C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2005) poster
2005 · war · comedy · drama · parody

C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America

Directed by Kevin Willmott1h 29m2005
ElsewhereIMDb6.45kRT79%Metacritic62
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
  • funny
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, extreme war / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.

Our read · C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2005) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive war · comedy · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes 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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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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