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Films like Afternoon.

Afternoon (2007) reads as Sombre, slow-burn, gentle drama / german, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold. 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.

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006) poster
1. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone2006

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

Fantasma (2006) poster
2. Fantasma2006

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

Liverpool (2008) poster
3. Liverpool2008

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

Exhibition (2013) (2013) poster
4. Exhibition2013

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

Animus Animalis (2018) poster
5. Animus Animalis2018

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

August Winds (2014) poster
6. August Winds2014

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

The Limits of Control (2009) poster
7. The Limits of Control2009

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

No Home Movie (2015) (2015) poster
8. No Home Movie2015

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

Ūdens (2006) poster
9. Ūdens2006

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

Peace to Us in Our Dreams (2015) poster
10. Peace to Us in Our Dreams2015

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

In the City of Sylvia (2007) poster
11. In the City of Sylvia2007

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

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014) poster
12. Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

These are Afternoon’s neighbours — where are yours?

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