THEME EXPLORATION

aging

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Wild Strawberries
Wild Strawberries
1957 · Ingmar Bergman
Amour
Amour
2012 · Michael Haneke
Umberto D.
Umberto D.
1952 · Vittorio De Sica
Don’t Come Knocking
Don’t Come Knocking
2005 · Wim Wenders
Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story
1953 · Yasujirō Ozu
A Separation
A Separation
2011 · Asghar Farhadi
The Gin Game
The Gin Game
1981 · Mike Nichols
Logan
Logan
2017 · James Mangold
The Straight Story
The Straight Story
1999 · David Lynch
A Useful Life
A Useful Life
2010 · Federico Veiroj
Ashes
Ashes
2012 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Pain and Glory
Pain and Glory
2019 · Pedro Almodóvar
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Andrew Haigh UK · Harrogate

Silence becomes language—letting unspoken longing accumulate into unbearable emotional weight.

 Clint Eastwood USA

Eastwood strips storytelling to moral essentials, favoring weathered faces and sparse dialogue over spectacle.

 Yasujirō Ozu

Intimate portrayal of everyday family life through compositionally rigorous, emotionally restrained cinema.