Films like Wasting Away.
Wasting Away (2007) reads as Warm, breathless, measured horror / comedy, 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 running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.
Keeps the running vein of humour; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.
These are Wasting Away’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.
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