Films like It's Such a Beautiful Day.

It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011) reads as Sombre, measured, gentle animation / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender. 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.

Night Across the Street (2012) poster
1. Night Across the Street2012

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a chilly detachment.

It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) poster
2. It's Such a Beautiful Day2012

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

My Winnipeg (2008) poster
3. My Winnipeg2008

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

Mr. Nobody (2009) poster
4. Mr. Nobody2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

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

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

To Each His Own Cinema (2007) poster
6. To Each His Own Cinema2007

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

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

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

Blind (2014) poster
8. Blind2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a chilly detachment.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) poster
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind2004

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Asteroid City (2023) poster
10. Asteroid City2023

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

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

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

A Dragon Arrives! (2016) poster
12. A Dragon Arrives!2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a chilly detachment.

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