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Films like The Guitar.

The Guitar (2008) reads as Neutral, measured, gentle romance / drama, 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.

A Five Star Life (2013) poster
1. A Five Star Life2013

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

Trucker (2008) poster
2. Trucker2008

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

Hateship Loveship (2014) poster
3. Hateship Loveship2014

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

Lily Sometimes (2010) poster
4. Lily Sometimes2010

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

One Million Yen Girl (2008) poster
5. One Million Yen Girl2008

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

1 Night (2016) poster
6. 1 Night2016

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

The Face of Love (2013) poster
7. The Face of Love2013

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

A Perfect Ending (2012) poster
8. A Perfect Ending2012

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

Arthur Newman (2012) poster
9. Arthur Newman2012

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

Copenhagen (2014) poster
10. Copenhagen2014

Keeps the heightened unreality and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bloomington (2010) poster
11. Bloomington2010

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

LelleBelle (2010) poster
12. LelleBelle2010

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

These are The Guitar’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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