Films like The Mermaid.
The Mermaid (2016) reads as Cosy, breathless, measured comedy / fantasy, inventive 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.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.
Keeps the running vein of humour; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are The Mermaid’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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