Official poster for Maria (2021)

Maria

May 18, 2021 0h 4mAnimation

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Maria, an imaginative and neurodivergent teenage girl, creates art to cope with her stressful school life.Can she keep it together?

Signature: Craft · Wonder · Humour

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How Maria actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve core traits Nutevio tracks across every film and series.

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Maria reads strongest on Pace, Craft and Wonder.

PacePresent5.7

How quickly the story moves scene to scene.

CraftPresent5.7

Filmmaking quality — direction, writing and recognition.

WonderPresent5.6

Scale, imagination and the sense of the extraordinary.

HumourPresent5.4

How often it is genuinely funny, by design.

TensionPresent5.0

The sustained pressure it keeps you under.

DarknessPresent5.0

How bleak the tone and subject matter run.

EmotionPresent5.0

How much it is designed to move you.

ActionPresent5.0

Physical momentum — chases, combat, set pieces.

MysteryPresent5.0

How much of the story is withheld and unravelled.

ComplexityPresent5.0

How much attention the structure and ideas demand.

RomancePresent5.0

How central love and intimacy are to the story.

FearPresent5.0

How much it is built to unsettle or frighten.

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Maria, an imaginative and neurodivergent teenage girl, creates art to cope with her stressful school life. Can she keep it together?

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Release date: May 18, 2021
Runtime: 0h 4m
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Language: English
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