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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Tideland, it filters harsh adult reality through a child’s elaborate fantasy life, pairing emotional vulnerability with surreal imagery and an uneasy sense that imagination is both refuge and danger.
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Why this pick
Its sun-bleached rural childhood, grotesque fairytale logic and mounting dread closely echo Tideland’s collision of innocence, isolation and disturbed adult surroundings.
03
Why this pick
A lonely girl’s drawings become an ominous dream world in this intimate, unsettling fantasy; it shares Tideland’s child-centred perspective and porous boundary between play and terror.
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Why this pick
This quiet, visually poetic film follows a young girl transforming a desolate rural world through private mythmaking, with the same haunting tenderness beneath Tideland’s strangeness.
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Why this pick
Neil Jordan builds a tactile, darkly playful storybook nightmare where childhood imagination, sexuality and menace intertwine—an apt match for Tideland’s macabre fairytale sensibility.
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01 / THE STORY
''Tideland'' centers on an abandoned child, Jeliza-Rose, and her solitary adventures during one summer in rural Texas while staying at a rundown farmhouse called What Rocks, and focuses on the increasingly dark, imaginative Fantasy (psychology) life the girl creates with the aid of dismembered Barbie doll heads that she often wears on her fingertips. With names such as Mystique, Sateen Lips, Baby Blonde and Glitter Gal, the doll heads not only engage in long conversations with Jeliza-Rose, reflecting different aspects of the girl's Psyche (psychology), but also act as her companions while she explores the barren Texas landscape.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Jeliza-Rose
Patrick
Woman
Noah
Dell
Queen Gunhilda
Dickens
