THEME EXPLORATION

contemporary alienation

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Diary of a Country Priest
Diary of a Country Priest
1951 · Robert Bresson
Breathless
Breathless
1960 · Jean-Luc Godard
Dillinger Is Dead
Dillinger Is Dead
1969 · Marco Ferreri
The Killer
The Killer
2023 · David Fincher
The Silence
The Silence
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
Under the Skin
Under the Skin
2013 · Jonathan Glazer
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
1994 · Michael Haneke
Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit
Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit
1985 · Alexander Kluge
In a Year with 13 Moons
In a Year with 13 Moons
1978 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Tag der Idioten
Tag der Idioten
1982 · Werner Schroeter
À Bout de souffle
À Bout de souffle
1960 · François Truffaut
Memories of Underdevelopment
Memories of Underdevelopment
1968 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Olivier Assayas France

Assayas crafts formally inventive explorations of desire, memory, and artistic struggle in contemporary life.

 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union/Russia

Tarkovsky's slow, meditative films explore spiritual emptiness and humanity's struggle to find meaning in a mechanized, increasingly disconnected world.

 Michelangelo Antonioni Italy

Antonioni pioneered the cinema of alienation, depicting emotionally detached characters adrift in modern landscapes, unable to communicate genuine feeling.