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Films like Side by Side.

Side by Side (2012) reads as Warm, steady, measured documentary, grounded 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.

The Kirishima Thing (2012) poster
1. The Kirishima Thing2012

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

78/52 (2017) poster
2. 78/522017

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) poster
3. Clouds of Sils Maria2014

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

Duplicity (2009) (2009) poster
4. Duplicity2009

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

Examined Life (2008) (2008) poster
5. Examined Life2008

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

Lust Stories (2018) poster
6. Lust Stories2018

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

Murder on the Orient Express (2017) (2017) poster
7. Murder on the Orient Express2017

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Three (2010) poster
8. Three2010

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

Dear Doctor (2009) poster
9. Dear Doctor2009

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

De Palma (2016) poster
10. De Palma2016

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

Fat People (2009) poster
11. Fat People2009

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

Joy (2015) (2015) poster
12. Joy2015

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

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