Films like This Must Be the Place.

This Must Be the Place (2011) reads as Neutral, measured, measured comedy / drama, inventive 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.

The Great Beauty (2013) poster
1. The Great Beauty2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires) (2010) poster
2. Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires)2010

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

The Last Communist (2006) poster
3. The Last Communist2006

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

I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016) poster
4. I Am Not Madame Bovary2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Unfair World (2011) poster
5. Unfair World2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Achilles and the Tortoise (2008) poster
6. Achilles and the Tortoise2008

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

Chevalier (2015) poster
7. Chevalier2015

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

Kajillionaire (2020) poster
8. Kajillionaire2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Self Made (2014) poster
9. Self Made2014

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

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet (2021) poster
10. The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet2021

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

Feathers (2021) poster
11. Feathers2021

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

The Future (2011) (2011) poster
12. The Future2011

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

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