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THEME EXPLORATION

resistance to change

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
The Leopard
The Leopard
1963 · Luchino Visconti
Passage to Marseille
Passage to Marseille
1944 · Michael Curtiz
The Gleaners and I
The Gleaners and I
2000 · Agnès Varda
Alphaville
Alphaville
1965 · Jean-Luc Godard
Pyramid of the Sun God
Pyramid of the Sun God
1965 · Robert Siodmak
Regno di Napoli
Regno di Napoli
1978 · Werner Schroeter
Busch singt – Sechs Filme über die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
Busch singt – Sechs Filme über die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
1982 · Konrad Wolf
Closely Watched Trains
Closely Watched Trains
1966 · Jiří Menzel
Ashes and Diamonds
Ashes and Diamonds
1958 · Andrzej Wajda
Avatar: The Way of Water
Avatar: The Way of Water
2022 · James Cameron
Blood of the Condor
Blood of the Condor
1969 · Jorge Sanjinés
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
1975 · Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Pier Paolo Pasolini → Italy

His films mourn the loss of traditional values and cultural authenticity in the face of modernization and consumer capitalism.

Theo Angelopoulos → Greece

His meditative, long-take aesthetic explores characters and societies trapped by history, memory, and inability to move forward.

Béla Tarr → Hungary

His monochromatic, slow cinema depicts worlds of stagnation where characters endure unchanging bleakness with stubborn persistence.

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