THEME EXPLORATION

fate and chance

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS

Blind Chance
1987 · Krzysztof Kieślowski

Chance at Love
1964 · Bertrand Tavernier

Love at First Sight

Love at First Sight
2023 · Vanessa Caswill

Intacto
2001 · Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Same Time, Next Christmas

Same Time, Next Christmas
2019 · Stephen Herek

Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · Jacques Demy

Barry Lyndon
1975 · Stanley Kubrick

Past Lives
2023 · Celine Song

Cat People
1942 · Jacques Tourneur

Dust in the Wind

Dust in the Wind
1986 · Hou Hsiao-hsien

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 · Guy Ritchie

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
1994 · Michael Haneke

DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS

Coen Brothers USA · Minnesota

Subverting genre conventions to expose the absurdity lurking beneath American violence and desperation.

Genre-subverting narratives blending dark humor with moral complexity and meticulous visual style.

Master of genre subversion blending crime, dark humor, and existential uncertainty into distinctly American tales.