Films like Beautiful Beings.

Beautiful Beings (2022) reads as Sombre, measured, extreme drama / coming-of-age, 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.

Clair Obscur (2016) poster
1. Clair Obscur2016

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

Honey Boy (2019) poster
2. Honey Boy2019

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

Scary Mother (2017) poster
3. Scary Mother2017

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

Mogul Mowgli (2020) poster
4. Mogul Mowgli2020

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

The PianoLesson —repeat guard2024
5. The Piano Lesson — repeat guard2024

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

They Look Like People (2016) poster
6. They Look Like People2016

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

Adoration (2019) poster
7. Adoration2019

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

Son of Sofia (2017) poster
8. Son of Sofia2017

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

Coven (2020) poster
9. Coven2020

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

Sweet Dreams (2016) poster
10. Sweet Dreams2016

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

Aruvi (2016) poster
11. Aruvi2016

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

Sibel (2018) poster
12. Sibel2018

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

These are Beautiful Beings’s neighbours — where are yours?

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