THEME EXPLORATION

class pretense

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Plácido
Plácido
1961 · Luis García Berlanga
Her First Mate
Her First Mate
1933 · William Wyler
Mannequin
Mannequin
1938 · Frank Borzage
El Justicero
El Justicero
1967 · Nelson Pereira dos Santos
La vida inútil de Pito Pérez/The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
La vida inútil de Pito Pérez/The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
1970 · Roberto Gavaldón
No Time for Love
No Time for Love
1943 · Mitchell Leisen
The Other Half
The Other Half
1919 · King Vidor
Up in the Clouds
Up in the Clouds
1965 · Mrinal Sen
China Is Near
China Is Near
1967 · Marco Bellocchio
Macario
Macario
1960 · Roberto Gavaldon
Miracle in Milan
Miracle in Milan
1951 · Vittorio De Sica
Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai
1954 · Akira Kurosawa
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Luis Buñuel Spain

His surrealist films systematically deconstruct bourgeois rituals and expose the absurdity underlying class pretense and social hierarchies.

 Jacques Tati France

Through visual comedy, he satirizes the performative nature of modern middle-class life and the gap between social aspirations and reality.

 Ken Loach United Kingdom

His neorealist approach reveals how class systems are maintained through institutional pretense and the dignified struggles of working-class individuals.