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Films like Adolescents.

Adolescents (2020) reads as Neutral, measured, gentle documentary / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. 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.

Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (2015) poster
1. Henry Gamble's Birthday Party2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tigertail (2020) poster
2. Tigertail2020

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

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013) poster
3. The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness2013

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

Jimmy P. (2013) poster
4. Jimmy P.2013

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

Carol (2015) poster
5. Carol2015

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

56 Up (2012) poster
6. 56 Up2012

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Compartment No. 6 (2021) poster
7. Compartment No. 62021

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mothering Sunday (2021) poster
8. Mothering Sunday2021

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

Fatima (2015) poster
9. Fatima2015

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a airy, open telling.

Schoolgirls (2020) poster
10. Schoolgirls2020

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe (2024) poster
11. Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe2024

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

Cherry Tobacco (2014) poster
12. Cherry Tobacco2014

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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