THEME EXPLORATION

fate and chance encounters

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Blind Chance
Blind Chance
1987 · Krzysztof Kieślowski
Chance at Love
Chance at Love
1964 · Bertrand Tavernier
Love at First Sight
Love at First Sight
2023 · Vanessa Caswill
Intacto
Intacto
2001 · Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Same Time, Next Christmas
Same Time, Next Christmas
2019 · Stephen Herek
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · Jacques Demy
Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon
1975 · Stanley Kubrick
Past Lives
Past Lives
2023 · Celine Song
Cat People
Cat People
1942 · Jacques Tourneur
Dust in the Wind
Dust in the Wind
1986 · Hou Hsiao-hsien
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 · Guy Ritchie
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
1994 · Michael Haneke
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong

His films obsessively explore how chance meetings and missed connections shape destiny, with visually poetic narratives about lovers separated by timing and circumstance.

 Krzysztof Kieślowski Poland

His masterwork 'Three Colors' trilogy and 'Dekalog' examine interconnected lives and coincidences that reveal hidden threads of fate weaving between strangers.

 David Fincher USA

Films like 'Zodiac' and 'The Game' meticulously dissect how random choices and chance encounters create cascading consequences that blur the line between control and destiny.