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Films like The Hedgehog.

The Hedgehog (2009) reads as Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / drama, 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.

Jack Goes Boating (2010) poster
1. Jack Goes Boating2010

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

Romeos (2011) poster
2. Romeos2011

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

Echoes of the Rainbow (2010) poster
3. Echoes of the Rainbow2010

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

Sleeping Dogs (2009) poster
4. Sleeping Dogs2009

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

Lulu in the Nude (2013) poster
5. Lulu in the Nude2013

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

Terri (2011) poster
6. Terri2011

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

Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013) poster
7. Mr. Morgan's Last Love2013

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

Third Star (2010) poster
8. Third Star2010

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

Snap (2015) (2015) poster
9. Snap2015

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

A Dinner for Them to Meet (2007) poster
10. A Dinner for Them to Meet2007

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

Wish I Was Here (2014) poster
11. Wish I Was Here2014

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Stella (2008) poster
12. Stella2008

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

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