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In his New Yorker write-up, Richard Brody declared Alain Gomis’ Félicité to be “in part, a musical”. And while it’s been pinned down as a Drama, its part-Congotronic part-Pärt sonic landscape makes it hard to disagree.
Which got us thinking about other films we love that experiment with diegesis and musicals’ fuzzy criteria. From Satyajit Ray’s The Music Room to Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits, here are 20 great quasi-musicals.