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THEME EXPLORATION

repressed desire

12 films · 2 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
The Silence
The Silence
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
Querelle
Querelle
1982 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive
2001 · David Lynch
Paura e amore
Paura e amore
1988 · Margarethe von Trotta
Summer Storm
Summer Storm
1944 · Douglas Sirk
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
1993 · Martin Scorsese
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Rainer Werner Fassbinder → Germany

His films obsessively deconstruct emotional and sexual repression within power dynamics, class structures, and relationships, often with devastating psychological intensity.

Wong Kar-wai → Hong Kong

His films transform yearning and unspoken desire into visual poetry, capturing the ache of attraction that cannot be consummated within restrictive social contexts.

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