Handsome Devil (2017) poster
2017 · drama · comedy · music · coming-of-age

Handsome Devil

Directed by John Butler1h 35m2017
ElsewhereIMDb7.018kRT83%Metacritic60
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • tender
  • funny
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A music-mad 16-year-old outcast at a rugby-mad boarding school forms an unlikely friendship with his dashing new roommate.

Our read · Handsome Devil (2017) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy · music entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive 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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