Heaven Knows What (2015) poster
2015 · drama · crime

Heaven Knows What

Directed by Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie1h 37m2015
ElsewhereIMDb6.810kRT89%Metacritic75
  • sombre
  • intense
Movie DNA

Sombre, steady, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.

Our read · Heaven Knows What (2015) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-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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