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By the Sea
Drama, Romance
Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to languid relationship dramas about emotional estrangement, buried grief, and intimacy rekindled through observation.
- Tone
- melancholic, contemplative, bleak
- Payoff
- reflection, catharsis
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- marriage, grief, alienation, intimacy, self-destruction
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, quiet seaside town and isolated hotel in France
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