Movies: Symbolism

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Seven colors are assigned to eat the food of their own color. They don't question it, until one of them wants to take a different path....

This compelling film represents a rare record of an original genius. In Jung on Film, the pioneering psychologist tells us about his collaboration with Sigmund Freud, about the insights he gained from listening to his patients' dreams, and about the ...

Dark, tragic comedy about a judgmental mother who learns her teenage daughter is into much older men, testing relationships and perceptions as one woman's denial leads to 'exceptance.'...

The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch is the author of a powerful body of work that is rooted in symbolism and expressionism. His most famous painting, "The Scream", painted in 1893, has become the symbol of existential anguish. He obsessively sought to...

A lyrical story about love and death, realized as a message....

This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander Hammid, Cecile Starr etc. Maya Deren (1917-1961) was an experimental filmmaker. In the 1940s and 1950...

A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of identity in the 1970s....

Meet Jonathan Noel, a man with an obsessive need for order, whose life is upended by the sudden appearance of a pigeon on his front porch. His routine is thrown into disarray when the unwelcomed intruder is introduced into his meticulously controlled...

In a decaying house, various mystical and chaotic figures live together and roam the endless corridors with a mysterious purpose until the cycle is complete....

A young orphan wakes up after wetting his bedsheet. Living under the supervision of nuns, he'll spend night and day attempting to amend his "mistake"....

That which is above is like that which is below, and that which is below is like that which is above...also birdos and fishies are nice....

Art critic and broadcaster Waldemar Januszczak wrote and directed this examination of a man who was not only a great painter but sculptor, wood carver, musician, print maker, journalist and ceramicist. As well as telling the remarkable story of Gaugu...

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Following a tragic event that shattered her life, renowned author Alice Chevalier struggles to find meaning in her existence. Searching for answers and a sign from destiny, she meets Thomas, a mysterious man who offers her an experience that defies t...

A young man, alone in his room, is visited by a mysterious voice, who forces him to reveal the murder he committed....

Tells the story a woman's life (and death) through poetry and symbolism....

A cinematic experiment inspired by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music....

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a man in black clothes brings another man in white clothes to a deserted area and the man in white has to convince the man in black to not murder him....