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THEME EXPLORATION

desire and space

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Road to the Stars
Road to the Stars
1957 · Pavel Klushantsev
My Night at Maud's
My Night at Maud's
1969 · Éric Rohmer
A Trip to the Moon
A Trip to the Moon
1902 · Georges Méliès
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
Alien
Alien
1979 · Ridley Scott
The Silence
The Silence
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
Querelle
Querelle
1982 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
1977 · George Lucas
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Michelangelo Antonioni → Italy

His films obsessively explore how human desire manifests through and is frustrated by modern architectural spaces, creating psychological voids within geometric landscapes.

Wong Kar-wai → Hong Kong

He transforms cramped urban spaces and neon-lit interiors into sensual dreamscapes where longing, isolation, and romantic desire are inseparable from the claustrophobic environments characters inhabit.

Andrei Tarkovsky → Soviet Union/Russia

His films use vast, contemplative spaces—from decaying rooms to alien landscapes—to examine metaphysical desire and the human yearning for transcendence within the material world.

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