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THEME EXPLORATION

sensuality and desire

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
2015 · Peter Greenaway
Times For
Times For
1970 · Stephen Dwoskin
Five Senses of Eros
Five Senses of Eros
2009 · Min Kyu-dong
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
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Pedro Almodóvar → Spain

His films celebrate passion, desire, and human sexuality with vibrant emotional intensity and visual sensuality.

Wong Kar-wai → Hong Kong

He crafts visually lush narratives where unfulfilled desire and romantic longing permeate every frame through color and movement.

Agnès Varda → France

Her films explore female desire and sensuality with poetic frankness, celebrating bodily experience and intimate human connection.

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