Films like Flights in Dreams and Reality.

Flights in Dreams and Reality (1982) reads as Sombre, steady, measured midlife / crisis, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, 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.

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) poster
1. Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean1982

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

The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1983) poster
2. The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun1983

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

Big Eyes (1974) poster
3. Big Eyes1974

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

Write and Fight (1985) poster
4. Write and Fight1985

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

Cop au Vin (1985) poster
5. Cop au Vin1985

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

Inspector Lavardin (1986) poster
6. Inspector Lavardin1986

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

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987) poster
7. Sammy and Rosie Get Laid1987

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

Prick Up Your Ears (1987) poster
8. Prick Up Your Ears1987

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

Proof (1991) poster
9. Proof1991

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

The School We Went To (1980) poster
10. The School We Went To1980

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

Masques (1987) poster
11. Masques1987

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

Bianca (1984) poster
12. Bianca1984

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

These are Flights in Dreams and Reality’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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