
Over The Cracks
2023

Representation Score
Fair
2019
Director
Christophe Le Masne
Runtime
0 minutes
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The film primarily serves as a psychological character study focusing on the complexities of a single family unit. It avoids traditional genre clichés to highlight intricate interpersonal dynamics. While it lacks broad racial or LGBTQ+ representation, it finds progressive value in rejecting traditional domestic hierarchies. Ultimately, the film’s strength lies in its deconstruction of social norms, though it remains confined to a narrow socioeconomic and demographic scope.
Category Breakdown
The film follows a traditional approach regarding sexual orientation. It does not explicitly depict non-straight identities or stories that challenge the idea that everyone is straight.
The movie challenges the typical nurturing mother stereotype by showing the maternal figure as intrusive and overbearing. This shifts focus from the usual sanctity of mothers to psychological conflict.
Set in a modern French middle-class environment, the cast appears mostly uniform. The story centers on a specific socioeconomic group without much diversity.
The film questions idealized Western views of healthy families by depicting dysfunctional parent-child relationships. It highlights subjective morality and the breakdown of traditional family structures.
Themes of codependency and the inability to achieve independence are explored as character traits rather than explicit depictions of neurodivergence. No characters with disabilities are used as plot devices.
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Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
Benedict missed Mother's funeral. He was stuck in the Eurostar. In the offbeat as always, and a little pitiful, he joined the family home to find his brother, his two sisters - and in a merry bazaar, many memories. There, in the remnants of his childhood, in the intimacy of his room, he sees her - She is waiting for him. And she will not let go.

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