Films like The Eyes, the Mouth.
The Eyes, the Mouth (1982) reads as Heavy, measured, measured drama / grief, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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

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

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

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
These are The Eyes, the Mouth’s neighbours — where are yours?
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