Films like The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) reads as Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, 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.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
These are The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie’s neighbours — where are yours?
Pick the mood of the night and we pull a film that fits it, on the same twelve axes. Then everyone on the couch gets something to watch for.
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