THEME EXPLORATION

unfulfilled desire

12 films · 2 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Paura e amore
Paura e amore
1988 · Margarethe von Trotta
My Night at Maud's
My Night at Maud's
1969 · Éric Rohmer
Audition
Audition
1999 · Takashi Miike
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013 · Abdellatif Kechiche
A Woman Is a Woman
A Woman Is a Woman
1961 · Jean-Luc Godard
Cat People
Cat People
1942 · Jacques Tourneur
Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
1992 · Alfonso Arau
Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive
2001 · David Lynch
The Silence
The Silence
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
Querelle
Querelle
1982 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Summer Storm
Summer Storm
1944 · Douglas Sirk
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
1993 · Martin Scorsese
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong

His films are suffused with romantic longing and melancholic desire that remains perpetually out of reach, creating visual poetry from emotional incompleteness.

 Michelangelo Antonioni Italy

He dissects modern alienation and the yearning for connection that characters cannot fulfill, exploring the emotional void beneath contemporary surfaces.