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Films like The Mirror.

The Mirror (1997) reads as Warm, measured, gentle drama / children, inventive 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.

Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) poster
1. Me and You and Everyone We Know2005

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a running vein of humour.

A Moment of Innocence (1996) poster
2. A Moment of Innocence1996

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Chungking Express (1994) poster
3. Chungking Express1994

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Buffalo '66 (1998) poster
4. Buffalo '661998

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

Our Beloved Month of August (2008) poster
5. Our Beloved Month of August2008

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Fifth Element of Funny (1991) poster
6. The Fifth Element of Funny1991

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

Around a Small Mountain (2009) poster
7. Around a Small Mountain2009

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

Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989) poster
8. Notebook on Cities and Clothes1989

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Slacker (1990) poster
9. Slacker1990

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

Close-Up (1990) poster
10. Close-Up1990

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Slacker (Linklater 1990) (1990) poster
11. Slacker (Linklater 1990)1990

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a running vein of humour.

Nénette and Boni (1996) poster
12. Nénette and Boni1996

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

These are The Mirror’s neighbours — where are yours?

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