THEME EXPLORATION

vanity and immortality

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Cronos
Cronos
1993 · Guillermo del Toro
Whiskey with Vodka
Whiskey with Vodka
2009 · Andreas Dresen
Snow White and the Huntsman
Snow White and the Huntsman
2012 · Rupert Sanders
Black Adam
Black Adam
2022 · Jaume Collet-Serra
Only Lovers Left Alive
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 · Jim Jarmusch
Father Gets in the Game
Father Gets in the Game
1908 · D.W. Griffith
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
1959 · Terence Fisher
The Substance
The Substance
2024 · Coralie Fargeat
La Collectionneuse
La Collectionneuse
1967 · Eric Rohmer
Terracotta Warrior
Terracotta Warrior
1989 · Zhang Yimou
Highlander
Highlander
1986 · Russell Mulcahy
Blade of the Immortal
Blade of the Immortal
2017 · Takashi Miike
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Federico Fellini Italy

His films obsessively dissect the vanity of fame and beauty while exploring how art and cinema offer illusory paths to immortality.

 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His spiritually charged cinema interrogates human vanity and the desperate yearning for transcendence and permanent meaning in an indifferent universe.