THEME EXPLORATION

relationship cycles

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Swimming Pool
Swimming Pool
2003 · François Ozon
Silence
Silence
2016 · Martin Scorsese
A Taste of Honey
A Taste of Honey
1961 · Tony Richardson
A Better Tomorrow II
A Better Tomorrow II
1987 · John Woo
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
36 Fillette
36 Fillette
1988 · Catherine Breillat
Big City
Big City
1937 · Frank Borzage
Daddy Nostalgia
Daddy Nostalgia
1990 · Bertrand Tavernier
Her Brother
Her Brother
1960 · Kon Ichikawa
Think Like a Man
Think Like a Man
2012 · Tim Story
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004 · Michel Gondry
A Woman Is a Woman
A Woman Is a Woman
1961 · Jean-Luc Godard
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong

His films obsessively explore the cyclical nature of desire, separation, and longing through fragmented narratives and visual repetition.

 Agnès Varda France

She examines how relationships evolve, deteriorate, and transform across time with poetic honesty and circular narrative structures.

 Richard Linklater United States

His real-time dialogue films capture the eternal cyclical patterns of human connection—attraction, conflict, understanding, and drift.