THEME EXPLORATION

beauty and objectification

12 films · 2 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Under the Skin
Under the Skin
2013 · Jonathan Glazer
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
1938 · Leni Riefenstahl
Memories of Underdevelopment
Memories of Underdevelopment
1968 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast
1991 · Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast
2017 · Bill Condon
Caramel
Caramel
2007 · Nadine Labaki
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938 · David Hand & Wilfred Jackson
The Entertainer
The Entertainer
1960 · Tony Richardson
À ma soeur!
À ma soeur!
2001 · Catherine Breillat
La Belle et la Bête
La Belle et la Bête
1946 · Jean Cocteau
Parthenope
Parthenope
2024 · Paolo Sorrentino
Lover, Come Back to Me
Lover, Come Back to Me
1983 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Michelangelo Antonioni Italy

His films obsessively examine beauty as alienation, using the female form and visual composition to explore how aesthetic perfection paradoxically isolates and objectifies characters.

 Agnès Varda France

She challenges conventional representations of beauty and aging through intimate, reflexive cinema that questions how women are seen and valued across time and society.