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Krapp's Last Tape (2000)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the 69-year-old man on stage, but from his 39-year-old self on the tape he chooses to listen to. On the 'awful occasion' of his birthday, Krapp was then and is now in the habit of reviewing the past year and 'separating the grain from the husks'. He isolates memories of value, fertility and nourishment to set against creeping death 'when all my dust has settled'.
Style:
existential, philosophical, contemplative, art house, crying, minimal cast
Plot:
regret, memory, aging, monologue, reflection, minimalism, theater, isolation, existential crisis, melancholy, solitude, identity, intimate, grief, silence, ritual, loss, nostalgia, adaptation, absurdism, symbolism, obsession, birthday, desperation, mourning ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, melancholic, existential and contemplative films with plots about memory, minimalism, isolation, loss, grief, intimate and regret mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Krapp's Last Tape: Happy Days (2000), Courage (2022), How Far, How Near (1972), Lecture 21 (2008), Silence in Dreamland (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Place:
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