Films like What's Up with Love?.

What's Up with Love? (2002) reads as Warm, kinetic, measured romance / teen, 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.

Whatever Lola Wants (2007) poster
1. Whatever Lola Wants2007

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

What's Up with the Love? (2002) poster
2. What's Up with the Love?2002

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Fish Fall in Love (2005) poster
3. The Fish Fall in Love2005

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dear Galileo (2009) poster
4. Dear Galileo2009

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Tin Mine (2005) poster
5. The Tin Mine2005

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

ATL (2006) poster
6. ATL2006

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Beauty and the Bastard (2005) poster
7. Beauty and the Bastard2005

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Dreamer (2009) poster
8. The Dreamer2009

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Kids Are All Right (2010) poster
9. The Kids Are All Right2010

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Transamerica (2005) poster
10. Transamerica2005

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Yes or No (2010) poster
11. Yes or No2010

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a warm emotional register.

Love Aaj Kal (2009) poster
12. Love Aaj Kal2009

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are What's Up with Love?’s neighbours — where are yours?

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