The Tsugua Diaries (2021) poster
2021 · drama · experimental

The Tsugua Diaries

Directed by Miguel Gomes, Maureen Fazendeiro1h 42m2021
  • measured
  • gentle
  • inventive
  • intimate

Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after day… And they are not the only ones.

Our read · The Tsugua Diaries (2021) reads as a warm, measured, inventive drama · experimental entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. 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.

Cast
Crista AlfaiateCarloto CottaJoão Nunes MonteiroIsabel CardosoJoaquim Carvalho
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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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