Films like Petals on the Wind.

Petals on the Wind (2014) reads as Sombre, kinetic, measured tv-movie / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold. 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.

Wander (2020) poster
1. Wander2020

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Last Moment of Clarity (2020) poster
2. Last Moment of Clarity2020

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

Triple Dog (2010) poster
3. Triple Dog2010

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

Crows Explode (2014) poster
4. Crows Explode2014

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Cry_Wolf (2005) poster
5. Cry_Wolf2005

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

Strange but True (2019) poster
6. Strange but True2019

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

Columbus Circle (2012) poster
7. Columbus Circle2012

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

The Show (2017) poster
8. The Show2017

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Artificial Paradises (2012) poster
9. Artificial Paradises2012

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

The Two Faces of January (2014) poster
10. The Two Faces of January2014

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

Killers Anonymous (2019) poster
11. Killers Anonymous2019

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

The Good Neighbor (2016) poster
12. The Good Neighbor2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

These are Petals on the Wind’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.

Find my film for tonight — 60 sec →