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Films like Il Buco.

Il Buco (2021) reads as Neutral, slow-burn, gentle drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, 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.

To the Wonder (2013) poster
1. To the Wonder2013

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a airy, open telling.

Liverpool (2008) poster
2. Liverpool2008

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

Somewhere (2010) poster
3. Somewhere2010

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

Useless (2007) poster
4. Useless2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Manakamana (2013) (2013) poster
6. Manakamana2013

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

Fantasma (2006) poster
7. Fantasma2006

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

Aftersun (2022) poster
8. Aftersun2022

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a deep human warmth.

La Libertad (2001) (2001) poster
9. La Libertad2001

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

Old Joy (2006) poster
10. Old Joy2006

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

Old Joy (Reichardt) — re-pass (2006) poster
11. Old Joy (Reichardt) — re-pass2006

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

Afternoon (2007) poster
12. Afternoon2007

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a gentle temperature.

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