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Films like Yeast.

Yeast (2008) reads as Sombre, measured, measured drama / mumblecore, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, 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.

How Much Do You Love Me? (2005) poster
1. How Much Do You Love Me?2005

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

Hesher (2010) poster
2. Hesher2010

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

The Forest for the Trees (2003) poster
3. The Forest for the Trees2003

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

Audrey the Trainwreck (2010) poster
4. Audrey the Trainwreck2010

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

Drained (2006) poster
5. Drained2006

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

Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006) poster
6. Sleeping Dogs Lie2006

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

It Was the Son (2012) poster
7. It Was the Son2012

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003) poster
8. A Good Lawyer's Wife2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (2013) poster
9. The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas2013

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

The GoodTimesKid (2005) poster
10. The GoodTimesKid2005

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

The Comedy (2005) poster
11. The Comedy2005

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

Joy of Madness (2003) poster
12. Joy of Madness2003

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Yeast’s neighbours — where are yours?

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