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What's Up with Love? (2002) poster

2002 · romance · teen · landmark

What's Up with Love?

Directed by Rudi Soedjarwo1h 52m2002

A popular high school girl strains her relationship with her close-knit clique when she begins falling for a reclusive, lower-class schoolmate.

Our read: What's Up with Love? (2002) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded romance · teen · landmark entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, measured romance / teen, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.

ElsewhereIMDb7.73kTMDB7.650
  • warm
  • brisk
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DNA · twelve axes

How What's Up with 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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What watching it is actually like.

“You want an iconic Indonesian high school romance full of poetry and clique drama.”

ends bittersweetyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 15attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonight — Skip if you don't enjoy teen poetry and melodramatic young love stories.

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