THEME EXPLORATION

artistic ambition vs domestic life

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Boyhood
Boyhood
2014 · Richard Linklater
Young Man with Ideas
Young Man with Ideas
1952 · Mitchell Leisen
Grandpère's Pear
Grandpère's Pear
2003 · Stephen Dwoskin
Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain
1952 · Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
2018 · Stephen Nomura Schible
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1942 · Robert Siodmak
The Gin Game
The Gin Game
1981 · Mike Nichols
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
2025 · Guillermo del Toro
Touki Bouki
Touki Bouki
1973 · Djibril Diop Mambéty
Day for Night
Day for Night
1973 · François Truffaut
The Young Girls of Rochefort
The Young Girls of Rochefort
1967 · Jacques Demy
You Have to Come and See It
You Have to Come and See It
2022 · Jonás Trueba
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Ingmar Bergman Sweden

His films like 'Scenes from a Marriage' and 'Fanny and Alexander' anatomize the tension between creative aspiration and familial obligations with unsparing psychological depth.

 Yasujirō Ozu Japan

His meditative films about family dissolution and generational change explore how artistic sensibility and domestic duty coexist as competing claims on the human heart.