THEME EXPLORATION

department store life

12 films · 2 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
The Gin Game
The Gin Game
1981 · Mike Nichols
Boyhood
Boyhood
2014 · Richard Linklater
You Have to Come and See It
You Have to Come and See It
2022 · Jonás Trueba
Roma
Roma
1972 · Federico Fellini
A Plain Song
A Plain Song
1910 · D.W. Griffith
The Hayseed
The Hayseed
1919 · Buster Keaton
The Whole Town’s Talking
The Whole Town’s Talking
1935 · John Ford
Russian Lullabies
Russian Lullabies
1993 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
Tokyo-ga
Tokyo-ga
1985 · Wim Wenders
Aquí está Heraclio Bernal/Here Comes Heraclio Bernal
Aquí está Heraclio Bernal/Here Comes Heraclio Bernal
1957 · Roberto Gavaldón
The Gleaners and I
The Gleaners and I
2000 · Agnès Varda
Blind Chance
Blind Chance
1987 · Krzysztof Kieślowski
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Jacques Tati France

Tati's masterpiece 'Mon Oncle' satirizes modern consumer culture and department store aesthetics through meticulous visual comedy about everyday commercial life.

 Rainer Werner Fassbinder Germany

Fassbinder explored alienation in capitalist consumer society, using department stores and shopping spaces as metaphors for artificiality and emotional emptiness.