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Films like The Heiresses.

The Heiresses (2018) reads as Sombre, measured, measured queer / decline, grounded 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.

Pain and Glory (2019) poster
1. Pain and Glory2019

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

One Fine Morning (2022) poster
2. One Fine Morning2022

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

Octubre (2010) poster
3. Octubre2010

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

Paris, 13th District (2021) poster
4. Paris, 13th District2021

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

Aurora (Portugal) (2018) poster
5. Aurora (Portugal)2018

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

Crossing the Dust (2015) poster
6. Crossing the Dust2015

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

Atambua 39 Degrees Celsius (2012) poster
7. Atambua 39 Degrees Celsius2012

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

The Whaler Boy (2020) poster
8. The Whaler Boy2020

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

The Summer of Sangaile (Lithuania) (2015) poster
9. The Summer of Sangaile (Lithuania)2015

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

Wrong Rosary (2009) poster
10. Wrong Rosary2009

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

Our Lady of the Nile (2019) poster
11. Our Lady of the Nile2019

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

To the Ends of the Earth (2019) poster
12. To the Ends of the Earth2019

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

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