The Call

Name: The Call
Director: Unknown
Genre: Drama
Released: 2020-09-21
Duration: 10 min
Rating: 0

Sep 21, 2020 0h 10mDrama

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A transgender woman receives a call from her brother letting her know that their mother had passed.She is given the details of the funeral and is asked to come back to Cyprus for the funeral, but as her old self and not her new and true self.

Signature: Drama · Craft · Tension

The Nutevio profile

Nutevio DNA

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

Signature profile

The Call reads strongest on Emotion, Pace and Tension.

EmotionPresent6.2

How much it is designed to move you.

PacePresent5.2

How quickly the story moves scene to scene.

TensionPresent5.0

The sustained pressure it keeps you under.

DarknessPresent5.0

How bleak the tone and subject matter run.

HumourPresent5.0

How often it is genuinely funny, by design.

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.

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.

CraftLight4.5

Filmmaking quality — direction, writing and recognition.

Story overview

What It's About

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A transgender woman receives a call from her brother letting her know that their mother had passed. She is given the details of the funeral and is asked to come back to Cyprus for the funeral, but as her old self and not her new and true self. The difficulty of the conversation and the request is too much.

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