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Tell Me About Love (2008) poster

2008 · drama · romance · comedy

Tell Me About Love

Directed by Silvio Muccino1h 53m2008

Sasha is a 25-year-old orphan who asks Nicole, a married Frenchwoman in her forties, for advice to seduce Benedetta, his long-unrequited love. The two eventually bond over their shared past traumas and pains of love, until...

Our read: Tell Me About Love (2008) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

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Warm, steady, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.

ElsewhereIMDb4.9700
  • warm
  • gentle
  • intimate
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DNA · twelve axes

How Tell Me About Love feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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“You want an Italian tale of cross-generational love advice and seduction.”

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 12attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonight — Skip if romantic advice stories or full Italian subtitles feel slow.

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