Films like The Visitors: Bastille Day.
The Visitors: Bastille Day (2016) reads as Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, 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 clean studio craft and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the clean studio craft and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the clean studio craft and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the clean studio craft and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the clean studio craft and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the clean studio craft and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the clean studio craft and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the clean studio craft and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the clean studio craft and the running vein of humour; trades toward a heightened unreality.
Keeps the clean studio craft and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the clean studio craft and the running vein of humour; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the clean studio craft and the running vein of humour; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
These are The Visitors: Bastille Day’s neighbours — where are yours?
Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.
Find my film for tonight — 60 sec →