Films like Janis: Little Girl Blue.

Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015) reads as Sombre, steady, measured documentary / music, grounded 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.

Tales (2014) poster
1. Tales2014

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

I'm Not Bad (2017) poster
2. I'm Not Bad2017

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

Tenderness (2017) poster
3. Tenderness2017

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

Wednesday, May 9 (2015) poster
4. Wednesday, May 92015

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

Brides (Armenia) (2014) poster
5. Brides (Armenia)2014

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

Fences (2016) poster
6. Fences2016

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

Noura's Dream (2019) poster
7. Noura's Dream2019

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

The Yacoubian Building (2006) poster
8. The Yacoubian Building2006

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

In the Name of... (2013) poster
9. In the Name of...2013

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

Penelope (Spanish) (2014) poster
10. Penelope (Spanish)2014

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

My Dinner with Hervé (2018) poster
11. My Dinner with Hervé2018

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

Transit (2013) poster
12. Transit2013

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

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