Films like The Duke of Burgundy.

The Duke of Burgundy (2014) reads as Neutral, measured, measured romance / fetish, surreal 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.

Apples (2020) poster
1. Apples2020

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Staying Vertical (2016) poster
2. Staying Vertical2016

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Good Manners (2017) poster
3. Good Manners2017

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

To Die Like a Man (2009) poster
4. To Die Like a Man2009

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

La Chimera (2023) poster
5. La Chimera2023

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires) (2010) poster
6. Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires)2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Arabian Nights (Volume 1) (2015) poster
7. Arabian Nights (Volume 1)2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Big Big World (2016) poster
8. Big Big World2016

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

3-Iron (2004) poster
9. 3-Iron2004

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

Electrick Children (2012) (2012) poster
10. Electrick Children2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Happy as Lazzaro (2018) poster
11. Happy as Lazzaro2018

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a gentle temperature.

Her (Spike Jonze) — re-pass (2013) poster
12. Her (Spike Jonze) — re-pass2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

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