THEME EXPLORATION

fate and fortune

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS

What the Daisy Said
1910 · D.W. Griffith

Just My Luck
2006 · Donald Petrie

Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · Jacques Demy

Barry Lyndon
1975 · Stanley Kubrick

Past Lives
2023 · Celine Song

Blind Chance
1987 · Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cat People
1942 · Jacques Tourneur

Dust in the Wind
1986 · Hou Hsiao-hsien

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 · Guy Ritchie

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
1994 · Michael Haneke

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
1965 · Sergei Parajanov

Amores Perros
2000 · Alejandro González Iñárritu

DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS

Akira Kurosawa Japan

His films like 'Rashomon' and 'Ikiru' explore how fate, chance, and human perception interweave to shape destiny and meaning.

Joachim Trier Denmark

He obsessively examines the randomness of suffering and fortune in films like 'Dogville' and 'Breaking the Waves,' questioning whether fate or chance governs human tragedy.

Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong

His visually poetic films such as 'In the Mood for Love' and 'Chungking Express' meditate on chance encounters, missed connections, and the fateful threads binding souls.