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Films like Irma Vep.

Irma Vep (1996) reads as Neutral, steady, measured comedy / drama, 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.

Henry Fool (1997) poster
1. Henry Fool1997

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Flirt (Hal Hartley) (1995) poster
2. Flirt (Hal Hartley)1995

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Salaam Cinema (1995) poster
3. Salaam Cinema1995

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Funny Bones (1995) (1995) poster
4. Funny Bones1995

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Simple Men (1992) poster
5. Simple Men1992

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

High Heels (1991) poster
6. High Heels1991

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

In the Soup (1992) poster
7. In the Soup1992

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

Silvia Prieto (1999) poster
8. Silvia Prieto1999

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

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

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

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989) poster
10. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!1989

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

Go Go Tales (2008) poster
11. Go Go Tales2008

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

The Magic Gloves (2003) poster
12. The Magic Gloves2003

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

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