Films like Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles.

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (2018) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured animation / biography, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, 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.

Xenia (2014) poster
1. Xenia2014

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

Memory Box (2021) poster
2. Memory Box2021

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

Welcome to Marwen (2018) poster
3. Welcome to Marwen2018

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

Closet Monster (2016) poster
4. Closet Monster2016

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

Mermaid (2007) poster
5. Mermaid2007

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

I Dream in Another Language (2017) poster
6. I Dream in Another Language2017

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

I, Don Giovanni (2009) poster
7. I, Don Giovanni2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

Neruda (2016) poster
8. Neruda2016

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

Colorful (2010) poster
9. Colorful2010

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

Fireworks (2017) poster
10. Fireworks2017

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

Strella (2009) poster
11. Strella2009

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

Approved for Adoption (2012) poster
12. Approved for Adoption2012

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

These are Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles’s neighbours — where are yours?

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