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THEME EXPLORATION

rural alienation

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Los Muertos
Los Muertos
2004 · Lisandro Alonso
Diary of a Country Priest
Diary of a Country Priest
1951 · Robert Bresson
The Gleaners and I
The Gleaners and I
2000 · Agnès Varda
Breathless
Breathless
1960 · Jean-Luc Godard
Dillinger Is Dead
Dillinger Is Dead
1969 · Marco Ferreri
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 · F. W. Murnau
The Killer
The Killer
2023 · David Fincher
The Silence
The Silence
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
Under the Skin
Under the Skin
2013 · Jonathan Glazer
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
1994 · Michael Haneke
Das Madchen vom Moorhof
Das Madchen vom Moorhof
1935 · Douglas Sirk
Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit
Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit
1985 · Alexander Kluge
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Nuri Bilge Ceylan → Turkey · Istanbul

Architectural patience extracting profound silence from ordinary human suffering and landscape.

Chloé Zhao → China

Her films like 'The Rider' and 'Nomadland' intimately portray the economic displacement and social isolation of rural Americans struggling to survive outside traditional communities.

Hirokazu Kore-eda → Japan

His works such as 'Nobody Knows' and 'A Shoplifter's Family' explore the quiet desperation and fractured bonds of marginalized rural and working-class families disconnected from society.

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