Films like A Fantastic Fear of Everything.

A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold. 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.

I Declare War (2012) poster
1. I Declare War2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mushrooming (2012) poster
2. Mushrooming2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Sex and Death 101 (2007) poster
3. Sex and Death 1012007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Wetlands (2013) poster
4. Wetlands2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Choke (2008) poster
5. Choke2008

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Full Frontal (2002) poster
6. Full Frontal2002

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Spin Me Round (2022) poster
7. Spin Me Round2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Jacky in the Kingdom of Women (2014) poster
8. Jacky in the Kingdom of Women2014

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Lucky Luke (2009) poster
9. Lucky Luke2009

Keeps the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Louise-Michel (2008) poster
10. Louise-Michel2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Baghead (2008) poster
11. Baghead2008

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Girlfriend's Day (2017) poster
12. Girlfriend's Day2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are A Fantastic Fear of Everything’s neighbours — where are yours?

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