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Why this pick
July again turns emotional disconnection into off-kilter comedy, using eccentric behavior and a tactile, slightly unreal world to uncover a tentative desire for intimacy.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
July again turns emotional disconnection into off-kilter comedy, using eccentric behavior and a tactile, slightly unreal world to uncover a tentative desire for intimacy.
Why this pick
A relationship retreat becomes a contained, quietly uncanny examination of couplehood, preserving The Future’s mix of deadpan humor, melancholy, and destabilized emotional reality.
Why this pick
A tender, handmade collision of fantasy and awkward romantic longing that shares The Future’s childlike visual imagination and uncertainty over where emotional reality begins.
Why this pick
For the deadpan absurdism around romantic expectation: it expands The Future’s discomfort with prescribed couplehood into a coolly stylized, darkly funny social nightmare.
Why this pick
Its fractured, imaginative form makes a failing relationship feel physically unstable, balancing surreal invention with the same compassionate attention to imperfect love and regret.
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01 / THE STORY
The story involves a couple in their mid-30s, Sophie (Miranda July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater)—whose relationship is on the rocks—and their plans to adopt an injured cat, Paw Paw. When the couple decides to adopt the stray cat, their perspective on life changes radically, testing their faith in each other and themselves.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

