If you loved In the Land of Blood and Honey, try By the Sea
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Angelina Jolie, and they both carry the slow burn mood tag, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to In the Land of Blood and Honey, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What By the Sea is
A marriage plot set against the French coast, because nothing says passion like existential drift in 16mm. An American writer and his dancer wife settle into a sleepy seaside hotel, watching their silence accumulate like tide lines. It’s less about what happens and more about how long you can stare at Brad Pitt’s brooding profile before craving a real conversation.

