THEME EXPLORATION

desire vs. duty

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
Querelle
Querelle
1982 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Killer
The Killer
2023 · David Fincher
The Silence
The Silence
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
Paura e amore
Paura e amore
1988 · Margarethe von Trotta
Black Panther
Black Panther
2018 · Ryan Coogler
Late Spring
Late Spring
1949 · Yasujiro Ozu
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Yasujirō Ozu Japan

His films, particularly 'Tokyo Story' and 'Late Spring', explore the tension between personal desire and familial obligation with profound restraint and emotional depth.

 Ingmar Bergman Sweden

Works like 'Winter Light' and 'The Seventh Seal' confront the conflict between desire for meaning and the duty to faith, family, and mortality.

 Michael Haneke Austria

His films such as 'The Piano Teacher' and 'Funny Games' dissect the destructive friction between repressed desire and societal duty with unflinching intensity.