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Films like Butterflies.

Butterflies (2018) reads as Neutral, steady, measured comedy / drama, inventive 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.

The Dressmaker (2015) poster
1. The Dressmaker2015

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

Send Me to the Clouds (2019) poster
2. Send Me to the Clouds2019

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

Unfair World (2011) poster
3. Unfair World2011

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

I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016) poster
4. I Am Not Madame Bovary2016

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

Plato's Academy (2009) poster
5. Plato's Academy2009

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

The Distinguished Citizen (2016) poster
6. The Distinguished Citizen2016

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

The Father (2019) poster
7. The Father2019

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

Tatuagem (2013) poster
8. Tatuagem2013

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

Reverse (2009) poster
9. Reverse2009

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

Mia Madre (2015) poster
10. Mia Madre2015

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

Dead Pigs (2018) poster
11. Dead Pigs2018

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

Orange Suit (2012) poster
12. Orange Suit2012

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

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