Films
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Ninety anxious minutes in Paris, measured by mirrors, streets, and attention.
Two friends love the same mercurial woman across years of art, war, marriage, travel, and changing agreements.
A man is arrested without being detained and drawn through a legal system that never states the charge against him.
A director unable to make his next film retreats into memories, fantasies, and an ever-growing production circus.
A man leaving treatment spends a day revisiting Paris, old friends, and the life he cannot persuade himself to re-enter.
Two estranged sisters and a child stop in an unfamiliar country that seems close to war. Illness and sexual tension make their enforced proximity more isolating, not less.
A pastor asked to comfort a frightened parishioner discovers how little assurance he can offer. Bergman makes a crisis of faith inseparable from failures of attention and compassion.
A married literary scholar begins an affair, and a romance gradually takes on the pressure of a suspense story.
Falstaff’s warmth, vanity, and appetite fill the space between a prince’s youth and a king’s responsibilities.
A donkey passes from owner to owner, carrying the weight of human tenderness, use, and cruelty.
An angel listening to Berlin’s private thoughts begins to long for weight, colour, touch, and one mortal life.
A travelling whale and a mysterious speaker arrive in a cold town already close to collective rupture.
A series of cruel incidents disturbs a German village where discipline already governs family, school, church, and work.
A father, a daughter, and a horse repeat the work of survival as wind and light begin to withdraw from their world.
A young novice meets her aunt and learns that the life awaiting her rests beside a family history she never knew.
Two musicians repeatedly find and lose one another as borders, politics, and temperament change the terms of their love.
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Read a film closely
Character companions, film comparisons and a closer look at particular scenes.
- Seven Samurai
Who are the seven samurai?
Names, actors and roles to keep the seven apart.
- The Wages of Fear
The original, Sorcerer, or the remake?
Three films compared before you choose.
- Breathless
What disappears in a jump cut?
A diagram of the time Godard leaves out.
- Wild Strawberries
What do the dreams mean?
Trace the clocks, mirror and final scene.
After watching · Spoilers - Persona
Why hear the same speech twice?
Follow who speaks and whose face fills the frame.
After watching · Spoilers - Bicycle Thieves
What happens at the end?
The final encounter, seen through father and son.
After watching · Spoilers