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THEME EXPLORATION

beauty and objectification

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Under the Skin
Under the Skin
2013 · Jonathan Glazer
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
1938 · Leni Riefenstahl
Memories of Underdevelopment
Memories of Underdevelopment
1968 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast
1991 · Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast
2017 · Bill Condon
Caramel
Caramel
2007 · Nadine Labaki
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938 · David Hand & Wilfred Jackson
The Entertainer
The Entertainer
1960 · Tony Richardson
À ma soeur!
À ma soeur!
2001 · Catherine Breillat
La Belle et la Bête
La Belle et la Bête
1946 · Jean Cocteau
Parthenope
Parthenope
2024 · Paolo Sorrentino
Lover, Come Back to Me
Lover, Come Back to Me
1983 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Michelangelo Antonioni → Italy

His films obsessively examine beauty, desire, and the alienation that emerges when people are reduced to aesthetic objects.

David Lynch → United States

His surreal aesthetics simultaneously celebrate and interrogate feminine beauty, exposing the psychological darkness beneath surface glamour.

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