THEME EXPLORATION

aging and irrelevance

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
Yasujirō Ozu Japan

His films, particularly 'Tokyo Story,' poignantly examine the displacement and quiet irrelevance of aging parents in modernizing society.

 Michael Haneke Austria

Works like 'Amour' and 'Time of the Wolf' brutally confront physical deterioration, dependency, and the loss of autonomy in old age.

 Ken Loach United Kingdom

His socially conscious films explore how economic systems render aging working-class people expendable and forgotten.