Can anyone suggest some more films like this?
Please?
Loved the film
any ideas welcome
There's not many films like this, "Synechdoche, New York"? (sp)
you might like "Taxi Driver"? or the "Killing of John Lennon"..
"There's a Confidentiality Issue there I'm afraid, Sir..."
Douglas Buck's CUTTING MOMENTS (short film)
I don't mean to impose, but I am the Ocean.
The way that it was shot and edited was strongly reminiscent of Bresson, as are some of its themes. Other Haneke films, of course.
Dekalog
Love Unto Death
The Moor's Head
Home (2003)
The Exterminating Angel
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgoisie
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
The Stepfather
Dillinger is Dead
Possession (1981)
Repulsion
The Red Desert
Just avant la nuit
La Ceremonie
Tokyo Sonata
Bad Timing
The Hole (1998)
Affliction
Under the Sand
Trouble Every Day
Dans ma peau
Import/Export
Sex, Lies and Videotape
Angst
Hana-bi
Oh whisky, leave me alone.
Not the first to mention them, but definitely check out Bresson ('L'Argent', 'Au Hasard, Balthazar', 'Mouchette') and Chabrol ('La Cérémonie', 'Le Boucher').
Nobody mentioned 'Safe' by Todd Haynes, a must-see.
Anything by Bruno Dumont.
Thematically I might compare this to Michael Tolkin's THE NEW AGE (1994) with Judy Davis and Peter Weller - it's on AmazonInstant to rent and buy and is an overlooked satire of modern LA hipster bourgeois nonsense and the need for meaning in life - even among the vapid and self-obsessed. The ending is...similar...ish.
shareThematically I'd suggest the overlooked satire Michael Tolkin's THE NEW AGE (1994) with Judy Davis and Peter Weller as a bourgeois hipster LA couple doing some soul searching and coming to similar conclusions... :/
shareWatching Paint Dry, by Iama Böring.
Just sayin'...
on the side of giving up on the rat race ....Into The Wild and maybe Lost In America
and on the theme of suicide...Norikos Dinner Table which dumps on this film from a great height...maybe even its prequel/parallel film Suicide Club is worthy...BUT of course Asian Horror is NOT art and so Haneke to dish out any BS and the critics and pseuds will lap it up
I am not understanding why ANY person would want to watch a film done in the same boring style tbh - 10 minutes content spread across 100 plus minutes - anyone arguing differently should get a life