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2019 · queer · coming-of-age · psychological · coastal

Make Up

Directed by Claire Oakley1h 26m2019
ElsewhereIMDb5.92kRT98%Metacritic81TMDB5.846
  • sombre
  • measured
  • intimate
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Sombre, measured, measured queer / coming-of-age, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.

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After Ruth moves in with her boyfriend in a remote holiday park, tensions rise as she makes an unsettling discovery that lures her into a spiral of obsession.

Our read · Make Up (2019) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive queer · coming-of-age · psychological entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

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You want a tense queer psychodrama of obsession in a Cornish holiday park.

ends ambiguousit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 18attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnudity

Skip it tonightSkip if sexual obsession or slow burning paranoia is not relaxing.

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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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