THEME EXPLORATION

desire and longing

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
Paura e amore
Paura e amore
1988 · Margarethe von Trotta
Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive
2001 · David Lynch
Submergence
Submergence
2017 · Wim Wenders
Summer Storm
Summer Storm
1944 · Douglas Sirk
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Andrew Haigh UK · Harrogate

Silence becomes language—letting unspoken longing accumulate into unbearable emotional weight.

 Ellen Kuras USA · New Jersey

Light and color articulate emotion; camera inhabits spaces between bodies and moments.

 Tsai Ming-liang Malaysia · Kuching

Glacial long takes capture bodies suspended in time, where intimacy emerges through prolonged silence.