10 Uncommon Films About Love
We often find ourselves searching for movies online, and "love movies" is a frequent top search. But what if you're tired of the same old films and finding something new and interesting is proving difficult? This article is a list of masterpieces of world cinema, all united by the theme of love. Most of these non-popcorn flicks are like a breath of fresh air. You've probably never seen them before, so it's time to fix that. Believe me, you won't regret it. Please note that the list is in chronological order.
Breathless / 1960 / Jean-Luc Godard
"Breathless" is one of the first films by the famous director Jean-Luc Godard, which immediately brought him worldwide fame.
Michel Poiccard is a young rake, a spendthrift who doesn't have to earn a living by hard work. The money comes to him easily, and he spends it just as easily. Not a life, but a dream! There is only one downside to this – Michel's earnings are illegal. He earns his luxurious life by stealing expensive cars. But Michel doesn't think about the consequences, because here and now he is rich, handsome and happy, and who cares what will happen later? Not burdened by family and friends, he lives in the moment, until a policeman stops him on the road. Then Michel's life changes dramatically, because in order to avoid trouble with the car, he has to kill a law enforcement officer. And from that moment on, fickle luck turns away from the once happy swindler...
I Love You, I Love You / 1968 / Alain Resnais
After recovering from a suicide attempt, Claude Ridder agrees to participate in a time research experiment. In a secret suburban laboratory, he is placed in a biomorphic chamber where he has to relive one minute from his past. However, the memories drag on one after another, bringing Claude closer to the events that pushed him to suicide.
That Most Important Thing: Love / 1974 / Andrzej Zulawski
A film by the brilliant Andrzej Zulawski. The fate of a heroine doomed to the torments of love passion. A brilliant performance by Romy Schneider, who received the César Award for Best Actress. The melodramatic plot based on the novel "American Night" successfully weaves together elements of detective and frankly erotic episodes.
Tell Her That I Love Her / 1977 / Claude Miller
David Martino (Gérard Depardieu) is an accountant. Every Friday he leaves the city, supposedly to visit his mother. In fact, his parents have long since passed away, and he dedicates every weekend to thoughts of a woman he has known since his youth – Liz Dutié (Dominique Laffin). Liz is married to another man, she has a son. However, David stalks her, writes her love letters, thinking that they are made for each other, driven mad by love. And one day passion leads him to the edge of the abyss.
Annie Hall / 1977 / Woody Allen
A chronicle of the life of a New York comedian Singer: about his adventures and love for a girl Annie, whom he meets back in the 70s, being young.
Starting with Annie Hall, Woody Allen departed from his usual comedy formula to talk about more serious and significant things. He not only took a new look at courage and the things that come with it, but also touched on equally important topics of national and religious identity and the conflicts that rage around it.
This film by Woody Allen from the late 1970s became a landmark for both the director and American art cinema in general. The film won three Oscars, including for Best Picture of the Year, Original Screenplay and Directing. The award was also received by the lead actress, Diane Keaton.
A special feature of the picture is two witty cameos. The first belongs to Marshall McLuhan, who helps Allen's character in a dispute with a pseudo-intellectual in a queue at a movie theater. It is known that instead of the media philosopher, the director wanted to see the maestro Federico Fellini in this episode, but it was much more difficult to get him out of Italy than McLuhan from Canada. The second cameo is even more comical, because in it the real author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" walks through Central Park in the image of a "winner of the Truman Capote look-alike contest."
The Woman Next Door / 1981 / François Truffaut
Why do people betray those whom they have chosen as partners? Family life is a phenomenon. Family, on the one hand, promises us the comfort and warmth that we are constantly looking for and waiting for, on the other hand, it fetters us with obligations. And we turn from young rebels into normal, ordinary members of society. If we are lucky, we find the energy for development, if not, we replenish the statistics of "normal families" and constantly nostalgic for the past.
In a quiet old provincial suburb of Grenoble, a respectable and measured married couple lives. In fact, everyone here lives such a valid and measured life, alternately inviting each other to visit, talking, and on weekends they meet at the tennis club. And this calm life of a provincial French town is literally undermined by the arrival of a new couple. Elderly Philip and his beautiful wife Matilda. 8 years ago, Matilda had a stormy romance with one of the townspeople, Bernard. The raging and all-consuming passion literally undermines the life of Grenoble with the appearance of a neighbor. Having met again, the former lovers find themselves on the edge of the abyss of their own feelings and struggle with the temptation to derail the lives of themselves and their loved ones...
The Sorrow of Veronika Voss / 1982 / Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The film takes place in Germany in 1955. The economic miracle has worked, and the country is confidently on its feet. The film focuses on actress Veronika Voss. She and her country have experienced all the ups and downs, the peak of her fame came during the Third Reich.
The whole life of Veronika Voss is a play of light and shadow. A brilliant career against the backdrop of the Holocaust, a series of novels and complete loneliness, luxurious outfits and drug withdrawal, a thirst for fame and fear of bright light. As the heroine herself says: "Light and shadow are the two main secrets of cinema."
Returning home late at night, sports journalist Robert Kron sees a lady getting wet in the downpour and kindly invites her under his umbrella. Robert is immediately intrigued, how could such a beautiful and rich woman find herself alone in a deserted park, and the famous movie star Veronika Voss is attracted by the fact that he is not at all interested in cinema and does not even recognize her.
And most importantly - his benevolent attitude towards her does not change into flattery after he realizes that he is in front of a fan of thousands of viewers. Their relationship becomes closer and closer, but Robert notices that the already exalted star seems not to belong to herself, and sometimes she has strange attacks that resemble abstinence ...
Mauvais Sang / 1986 / Leos Carax
The near future... The world has acquired new colors. However, the driving forces of human passions, as before, remain the passions for profit and love, which destroy each other. The main character finds himself involved in a criminal operation to steal a vaccine from a laboratory against the STBO virus, which affects those who "engage in love without love." But the hero's love ruins the plans of the criminals.
My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days / 1989 / Andrzej Zulawski
Lucas, a computer genius, suffers from an unknown fatal disease, due to which he loses his memory. He meets Blanche, a young woman who cannot break up with her dissolute surroundings. For both of them, a short but intense period of passion begins, as they understand that they will not be together for long. This is an amazingly poetic and powerful film that tells about the victory of love over death, about the fact that feeling has a certain value in our pragmatic world.
Days of Being Wild / 1990 / Wong Kar-wai
The action of the picture takes place in the 60s. The fates of the heroes are intertwined so much that the impression of a small, close world is created. All of them are lonely. Everyone is uncomfortable in this life in their own way. At the center of the story is a young man named A-Fei. He seems to be a prosperous guy who is not burdened by work, and at the same time lives in material wealth, girls are kind to him, his life passes in idleness and entertainment.
A-Fei skillfully seduces girls, breaks their hearts, he is ruthless to his adoptive mother - all these are the actions of a very lonely person, offended by life, it feels like he was treated unfairly, and he takes revenge on others for it, and most of all those whom he loves get it.
