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THEME EXPLORATION

amnesia and identity

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
In a Year with 13 Moons
In a Year with 13 Moons
1978 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Portrait from Life
Portrait from Life
1948 · Terence Fisher
Adam Resurrected
Adam Resurrected
2008 · Paul Schrader
Die My Love
Die My Love
2025 · Lynne Ramsay
Layla
Layla
2026 · Amrou Al-Kadhi
Diabolically Yours
Diabolically Yours
1967 · Julien Duvivier
Fusa
Fusa
1995 · Kon Ichikawa
La Fièvre monte à El Pao
La Fièvre monte à El Pao
1959 · Luis Buñuel
Le Chanteur inconnu
Le Chanteur inconnu
1931 · Henri-Georges Clouzot
Quick
Quick
1932 · Robert Siodmak
The Whole Town’s Talking
The Whole Town’s Talking
1935 · John Ford
Aga's House
Aga's House
2019 · Lendita Zeqiraj
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Christopher Nolan → United Kingdom

His films like Memento and The Prestige obsessively deconstruct memory, identity, and the unreliability of perception through complex narratives.

David Lynch → United States

Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire explore fractured identities and memory loss through surrealist dreamscapes where reality and delusion intertwine.

Alain Resnais → France

Last Year at Marienbad and Hiroshima Mon Amour fundamentally interrogate memory, time, and the construction of personal identity through innovative narrative structures.

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