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broken engagement

8 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Maranhão ’66
Maranhão ’66
1966 · Glauber Rocha
The Broken Cross
The Broken Cross
1911 · D.W. Griffith
The Good Fairy
The Good Fairy
1935 · William Wyler
The Poppy
The Poppy
1935 · Kenji Mizoguchi
One Day of Life
One Day of Life
1950 · Emilio “Indio” Fernández
The Ruins
The Ruins
1984 · Mrinal Sen
The Wrestler
The Wrestler
2008 · Darren Aronofsky
Passion
Passion
2008 · Ryusuke Hamaguchi
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Agnès Varda → France

She examines fractured relationships, lost connections, and abandoned commitments in works like 'Vagabond' and 'One Sings, the Other Doesn't' with intimate poetic complexity.

Andrei Tarkovsky → Soviet Union/Russia

His meditative films like 'Mirror' and 'Stalker' deeply probe spiritual and emotional estrangement, failed relationships, and the collapse of human bonds through metaphysical cinema.

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