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Films like Good Manners.

Good Manners (2018) reads as Sombre, measured, measured fantasy / horror, surreal 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.

I Lost My Body (2019) poster
1. I Lost My Body2019

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

Dream (2008) poster
2. Dream2008

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

Kosmos (2010) poster
3. Kosmos2010

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

Insomnia (2014) poster
4. Insomnia2014

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

Opera Jawa (2006) poster
5. Opera Jawa2006

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

The Day I Lost My Shadow (2018) poster
6. The Day I Lost My Shadow2018

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

Vanishing Waves (2012) poster
7. Vanishing Waves2012

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

She Will (2022) poster
8. She Will2022

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

The Endless (2017) poster
9. The Endless2017

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

The Endless —repeat guard2017
10. The Endless — repeat guard2017

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

Apples (2020) poster
11. Apples2020

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

$9.99 (2008) poster
12. $9.992008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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