THEME EXPLORATION

search for the perfect woman

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS

Bicycle Thieves
1948 · Vittorio De Sica

Anatomy of Hell
2004 · Catherine Breillat

The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928 · Carl Theodor Dreyer

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
1938 · Leni Riefenstahl

Beau travail
1999 · Claire Denis

The Tempest
1932 · Robert Siodmak

Days of Being Wild
1991 · Wong Kar-wai

Farewell My Concubine
1993 · Chen Kaige

Landscape in the Mist
1988 · Theo Angelopoulos & Theodoros Angelopoulos

Nostalgia for the Light
2010 · Patricio Guzmán

The Salesman
2016 · Asghar Farhadi

Ikarie XB-1
1963 · Jindřích Polák

DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS

Federico Fellini Italy

His films obsessively portray the male fantasy and disillusionment in pursuing idealized feminine beauty, most notably in '8½' and 'La Dolce Vita'.

David Lynch USA

His surrealist narratives dissect the psychological obsession with feminine ideals and the disturbing gap between projection and reality in films like 'Mulholland Drive'.