Films like Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One.

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (2015) reads as Sombre, measured, measured austerity / anthology, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, 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.

Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One (2015) poster
1. Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One2015

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

Apples (2020) poster
2. Apples2020

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

A Dragon Arrives! (2016) poster
3. A Dragon Arrives!2016

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

Blind (2014) poster
4. Blind2014

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

Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (2008) poster
5. Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Sun Also Rises (2007) poster
6. The Sun Also Rises2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Annette (2021) poster
7. Annette2021

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

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012) poster
8. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet2012

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Her (Spike Jonze) — re-pass (2013) poster
9. Her (Spike Jonze) — re-pass2013

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

WWW: What a Wonderful World (2006) poster
10. WWW: What a Wonderful World2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter (2022) poster
11. Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter2022

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Lazzaro Felice (Re-pass) (2018) poster
12. Lazzaro Felice (Re-pass)2018

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

These are Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One’s neighbours — where are yours?

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