Films like 35 Shots of Rum.

35 Shots of Rum (2009) reads as Warm, slow-burn, gentle drama / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Hawaii (2013) poster
1. Hawaii2013

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.

A Simple Life (2012) poster
2. A Simple Life2012

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.

Nomadland (2021) poster
3. Nomadland2021

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Alamar (2009) poster
4. Alamar2009

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Love Is Strange (2014) poster
5. Love Is Strange2014

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.

Sweet Bean (2015) poster
6. Sweet Bean2015

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Summer Hours (2008) poster
7. Summer Hours2008

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Goodbye Solo (2009) poster
8. Goodbye Solo2009

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Las Acacias (2011) poster
9. Las Acacias2011

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.

Shun Li and the Poet (2011) poster
10. Shun Li and the Poet2011

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Blue Caftan (2023) poster
11. The Blue Caftan2023

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Myth of the American Sleepover (2011) poster
12. The Myth of the American Sleepover2011

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

These are 35 Shots of Rum’s neighbours — where are yours?

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