Rohmer’s Oscar-nominated international breakthrough sees a reticent Catholic man navigate Pascal’s wager, sexual temptation and self-doubt during a wintry night of talk with a seductive divorcee, shot in striking black-and-white by Nestor Almendros.
We can already witness a crystalline vision in Zanussi’s debut feature as he gives us an existential take on what makes one continue to live the life that one now lives, as two physicist friends deliberate on their vastly different life paths.
This moody piece detailing the state-of-mind of several members of the French Resistance during WWII is arguably Melville’s greatest work and one of the finest films ever made about the subject.
One of Russell’s top-tier films, this sensual adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s novel takes both lofty and earthy notions of ‘love’ into an ever-deepening spiral of psychosexual complications and provocations.
This French antecedent to ‘A Bigger Splash’ is a stylish if somewhat monotonous drama oozing sexual tension as a couple and a father-daughter duo temporarily reside in a summer house.
A somewhat convoluted but still intriguing Chinese spy mystery set during WWII as agents and double agents conspire to accelerate or derail Japanese progress in the war.
A somewhat underwhelming and ponderous psychological drama about a female knife-wielding spectre that haunts a European-influenced African who struggles with romantic relationships in his return to his home country.
This could be Pasolini’s most oblique work—a diptych that examines the nature of latent fascism and fetishistic consumption through the symbolism of cannibalism and the erasure of bodily traces.
As zany a film as you can find in Indian Parallel Cinema, Sen’s work about an uncompassionate city bureaucrat who goes on a perspective-changing hunting trip is highly-expressive in form and film language.
This is feisty if sometimes way too melodramatic filmmaking from Chahine as he pits poor and frustrated peasants against the rising tide of self-serving capitalism.
Eternality Tan 