Official poster for Petrichor (2020)

Petrichor

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Jan 6, 2020 0h 24mComedyDrama
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A suicidal twenty-something is dragged on a night out, by his party animal lodger, to cheer him up.What could possibly go wrong?

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Humour · Drama · Craft
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Nutevio DNA

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

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Petrichor reads strongest on Emotion, Humour and Complexity.

EmotionStrong7.0

How much it is designed to move you.

HumourPresent6.6

How often it is genuinely funny, by design.

ComplexityPresent6.2

How much attention the structure and ideas demand.

PacePresent5.2

How quickly the story moves scene to scene.

ActionPresent5.0

Physical momentum — chases, combat, set pieces.

MysteryPresent5.0

How much of the story is withheld and unravelled.

WonderPresent5.0

Scale, imagination and the sense of the extraordinary.

RomancePresent5.0

How central love and intimacy are to the story.

FearPresent5.0

How much it is built to unsettle or frighten.

TensionLight4.5

The sustained pressure it keeps you under.

CraftLight4.5

Filmmaking quality — direction, writing and recognition.

DarknessLight4.4

How bleak the tone and subject matter run.

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A suicidal twenty-something is dragged on a night out, by his party animal lodger, to cheer him up. What could possibly go wrong?

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Box Office & Release

Budget
$2,000
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Release date
Jan 6, 2020
Runtime
0h 24m
MPAA rating
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Language
English
Country
United Kingdom

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