Films like Carmina or Blow Up.

Carmina or Blow Up (2012) reads as Neutral, measured, gentle drama / comedy, 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.

Submarine (2011) poster
1. Submarine2011

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

Year of the Dog (2007) poster
2. Year of the Dog2007

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

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017) poster
3. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)2017

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

Hahaha (2010) poster
4. Hahaha2010

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

Güeros (2014) poster
5. Güeros2014

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

Mammuth (2010) poster
6. Mammuth2010

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

Free Floating (2006) poster
7. Free Floating2006

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

A Useful Life (2010) poster
8. A Useful Life2010

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

The Climb (2020) poster
9. The Climb2020

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

Hill of Freedom (2014) poster
10. Hill of Freedom2014

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

The Overnight (2015) poster
11. The Overnight2015

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

25 Watts (2001) poster
12. 25 Watts2001

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

These are Carmina or Blow Up’s neighbours — where are yours?

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