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THEME EXPLORATION

identity and self-perception

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Memento
Memento
2000 · Christopher Nolan
In a Year with 13 Moons
In a Year with 13 Moons
1978 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Mirror
The Mirror
1975 · Andrei Tarkovsky
Three Rocks
Three Rocks
2022 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Accused
Accused
1964 · Anubhuti Kashyap
Adam Resurrected
Adam Resurrected
2008 · Paul Schrader
Die My Love
Die My Love
2025 · Lynne Ramsay
Layla
Layla
2026 · Amrou Al-Kadhi
Dangsinjasingwa dangsinui geot
Dangsinjasingwa dangsinui geot
2016 · Hong Sang-soo
La Fièvre monte à El Pao
La Fièvre monte à El Pao
1959 · Luis Buñuel
Les Doigts dans le ventre
Les Doigts dans le ventre
1988 · François Ozon
Partner
Partner
1968 · Bernardo Bertolucci
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Agnès Varda → France

Her films explore how individuals construct and reconstruct their identities through memory, time, and personal narrative, most notably in works like 'Vagabond' and 'The Gleaners and I.'

Wong Kar-wai → Hong Kong

His visually poetic cinema constantly interrogates how characters perceive themselves through fragmented memories, lost relationships, and the gap between internal desire and external reality.

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