THEME EXPLORATION

hypocrisy and pretension

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Festen
Festen
1998 · Thomas Vinterberg
Dorothea Angermann
Dorothea Angermann
1959 · Robert Siodmak
Wild Game
Wild Game
1972 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Square
The Square
2017 · Ruben Östlund
Big Bad Wolves
Big Bad Wolves
2013 · Aharon Keshales
Jagte Raho
Jagte Raho
1957 · Amit Mitra & Sombhu Mitra
Salt of the Earth
Salt of the Earth
1954 · Herbert J. Biberman
The Father
The Father
2019 · Jamal Hill
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1996 · Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
The Night of the Hunter
The Night of the Hunter
1955 · Charles Laughton
Une vieille maîtresse
Une vieille maîtresse
2007 · Catherine Breillat
Les Destinées sentimentales
Les Destinées sentimentales
2000 · Olivier Assayas
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Luis Buñuel Spain

His surrealist films relentlessly expose the hypocrisy of bourgeois morality and social conventions through darkly comedic deconstruction.

 Rainer Werner Fassbinder Germany

His intense explorations of power, desire, and social performance reveal the psychological toll of maintaining false identities and social facades.