Films like It's Such a Beautiful Day.

It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) reads as Sombre, measured, measured drama / animation, surreal 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.

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (2015) poster
1. Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One2015

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

Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One (2015) poster
2. Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One2015

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

My Love Affair with Marriage (2022) poster
3. My Love Affair with Marriage2022

Keeps the strange, dreamlike logic and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Slack Bay (2016) poster
4. Slack Bay2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Science of Sleep (2006) poster
5. The Science of Sleep2006

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

My Winnipeg (2007) poster
6. My Winnipeg2007

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015) poster
7. Eisenstein in Guanajuato2015

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Her (Spike Jonze) — re-pass (2013) poster
8. Her (Spike Jonze) — re-pass2013

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Rocks in My Pockets (2014) poster
9. Rocks in My Pockets2014

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

It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011) poster
10. It's Such a Beautiful Day2011

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

Wild Grass (2009) poster
11. Wild Grass2009

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Blind (2014) poster
12. Blind2014

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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