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THEME EXPLORATION

duty vs 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
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 chronicle the quiet sacrifices of duty within families, where characters suppress personal desires for familial obligation.

Hou Hsiao-hsien → Taiwan

His meditative cinema explores the tension between individual longing and societal/familial responsibilities across decades of personal and political change.

Cristian Mungiu → Romania

His brutal naturalism dissects how moral duty and personal desire collide in intimate relationships and social constraints.

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