Films like The Clink of Ice.

The Clink of Ice (2010) reads as Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / drama, surreal 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.

$9.99 (2009) poster
1. $9.992009

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

Days of Darkness (2007) poster
2. Days of Darkness2007

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

Waiter (2006) poster
3. Waiter2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Last Days of Emma Blank (2009) poster
4. The Last Days of Emma Blank2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Lo (2009) poster
5. Lo2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Teddy (2020) poster
6. Teddy2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Keep an Eye Out (2018) poster
7. Keep an Eye Out2018

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Bothersome Man (Norway) (2006) poster
8. The Bothersome Man (Norway)2006

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

Reflections of a Blender (2010) poster
9. Reflections of a Blender2010

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

Mister Lonely (2008) poster
10. Mister Lonely2008

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Glory to the Filmmaker! (2007) poster
11. Glory to the Filmmaker!2007

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

Scare Me (2020) poster
12. Scare Me2020

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

These are The Clink of Ice’s neighbours — where are yours?

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