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Films like Perceval.

Perceval (1978) reads as Neutral, measured, measured historical / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, 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.

Silvestre (1981) poster
1. Silvestre1981

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (1988) poster
2. The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober1988

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

Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983) poster
3. Life Is a Bed of Roses1983

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

Gwen, the Book of Sand (1985) poster
4. Gwen, the Book of Sand1985

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

Hungarian Fairy Tale (1987) poster
5. Hungarian Fairy Tale1987

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Love on the Ground (1984) poster
6. Love on the Ground1984

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

Martyrs of Love (1967) poster
7. Martyrs of Love1967

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

My Twentieth Century (1989) poster
8. My Twentieth Century1989

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Orlando (1992) (1992) poster
9. Orlando1992

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Legend of the Mountain (1979) poster
10. Legend of the Mountain1979

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

Arabian Nights (1974) poster
11. Arabian Nights1974

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

Faraway, So Close! (1993) poster
12. Faraway, So Close!1993

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

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