Cinéma of the Bleak
‘Bleak’ is subjective
But in no particular order cinema my tattered little emotional masochist adores as follows – oh and I welcome additions too please dear followers:
- Dogtooth (2009) – Yorgos Lanthimos
- Miss Violence (2011) – Alexandros Avranas.
- Salo (1975) – Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Happiness (1996) – Todd Solondz
- Antichrist (2008) – Lars Von Trier
- Breaking The Waves (1996) – Lars Von Trier
- Actually anything by Von Trier
- The Lobster (2015) – Yorgos Lanthimos
- Dead Man (1995) – Jim Jarmusch
- Punch-Drunk Love (2002) – Paul Thomas Anderson
- LILYA 4-EVER (2002) – Lukas Moodysson
- Phantom Thread (2017) – Paul Thomas Anderson
- Shell (2012) – Scott Graham
- Irréversible (2002) – Gaspar Noé
- Labrador (2011) – Frederikke Aspöck
- The Elephant Man (1980) – David Lynch
- The Night Porter (1974) – Liliana Cavani
- Head On (1996) – Ana Kokkinos.
Off the top of my head, I guess I’d add:
- In The Company of Men (1997) and Your Friends & Neighbors (1998) – Neil LaBute
- Winter’s Bone (2010) – Debra Granik
- Mystic River (2003) – Clint Eastwood
- 21 Grams (2003) – Alejandro Iñárritu