Films like Close Your Eyes (Erice).

Close Your Eyes (Erice) (2023) reads as Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama, 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.

Song of Granite (2017) poster
1. Song of Granite2017

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

Drive My Car (2021) poster
2. Drive My Car2021

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

Still the Water (2014) poster
3. Still the Water2014

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

Close Your Eyes (2023) poster
4. Close Your Eyes2023

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

Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2020) poster
5. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue2020

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

Radiance (2017) poster
6. Radiance2017

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Luxor (2020) poster
7. Luxor2020

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

The Shadowless Tower (2023) poster
8. The Shadowless Tower2023

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

Works and Days (2020) poster
9. Works and Days2020

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

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023) poster
10. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt2023

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

Cu Li Never Cries (2024) poster
11. Cu Li Never Cries2024

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

Ship of Theseus (2012) poster
12. Ship of Theseus2012

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

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