Curiosa
- measured
- intimate
Neutral, measured, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier.
Our read · Curiosa (2019) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · history entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Curiosa
What watching it is actually like.
“You want an erotic period piece about artists and sexual freedom in 19th-century France.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if explicit sex and abundant nudity in historical context bother you.
The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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