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Films like Summer Hours.

Summer Hours (2008) reads as Warm, measured, gentle drama / french, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender. 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 Mirror Never Lies (2011) poster
1. The Mirror Never Lies2011

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

Cherry Tobacco (2014) poster
2. Cherry Tobacco2014

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

Flowers in thePocket2007
3. Flowers in the Pocket2007

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

The Way We Are (2008) poster
4. The Way We Are2008

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

Carol (2015) poster
5. Carol2015

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

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013) poster
6. The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness2013

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

The Second Wedding Night (2005) poster
7. The Second Wedding Night2005

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

Capitalism (2013) poster
8. Capitalism2013

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

Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010) poster
9. Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa2010

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

Baran (2001) poster
10. Baran2001

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

Edifício Master (2002) poster
11. Edifício Master2002

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

Mademoiselle Chambon (2009) poster
12. Mademoiselle Chambon2009

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Summer Hours’s neighbours — where are yours?

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