THEME EXPLORATION

consumer desire

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
My Night at Maud's
My Night at Maud's
1969 · Éric Rohmer
Audition
Audition
1999 · Takashi Miike
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013 · Abdellatif Kechiche
A Woman Is a Woman
A Woman Is a Woman
1961 · Jean-Luc Godard
Cat People
Cat People
1942 · Jacques Tourneur
Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
1992 · Alfonso Arau
The Silence
The Silence
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
Querelle
Querelle
1982 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive
2001 · David Lynch
Paura e amore
Paura e amore
1988 · Margarethe von Trotta
Summer Storm
Summer Storm
1944 · Douglas Sirk
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
1993 · Martin Scorsese
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
David Fincher USA

His films like *Fight Club* and *The Social Network* dissect consumer culture, materialism, and the psychological manipulation underlying modern desire.

 Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong

His visually sumptuous cinema explores longing and unfulfilled desire through aesthetic consumption and the commodification of human connection.

 Rainer Werner Fassbinder Germany

His melodramas interrogate how capitalist systems manufacture and weaponize desire, trapping characters in cycles of consumption and emotional dependency.