Films like Happiness.
Happiness (1935) reads as Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / satire, 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.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.
Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a heightened unreality.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a warm emotional register.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a warm emotional register.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.
These are Happiness’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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