Not everything turned out the way I imagined it, but overall, it was a satisfying exercise/project. So here are the 33 pictures in order of appearance. Hopefully, you'll see some of the films' elements and why I combined them.
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| Parents: MOTHER (2009) and VATERS GARTEN (2013). The latter is not in the picture as I did not think of the mashup until after I posted the first one. |
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| Magical island life: LA VIDA ES SILBER (1998) / SONG OF THE SEA (2014) |
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| Parallel dimensions inside the computer: WELT AM DRAHT (1974) / SUMMER WARS (2009) |
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| Rhythm in your veins: WHIPLASH (2014) / BABY DRIVER (2017) |
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| Bakeries in Tokyo and Zurich: AN (2015) / BÄCKEREI ZÜRRER (1957) |
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| Colorful and naughty: THE FLORIDA PROJECT (2017) / ZAZIE DANS LE MÉTRO (1960) |
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| Tangled up in the past - two masterpieces about country vs city life: LAZZARO FELICE (2018) / ONLY YESTERDAY (1991) |
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| April fools - exceptional conditions: LE PRÉNOM (2012) / TURIST - FORCE MAJEURE (2014) |
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| Far from the city: THE RIDER (2018) / SAMEBLOD (2016) |
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| Unseen revelations: DEN SKYLDIGE (2018) / ABOUT ELLY (2009) |
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| Party nights gone astray: VICTORIA (2015) / THE NIGHT IS SHORT, WALK ON GIRL (2017) |
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| Shoplifters, oranges and substitute families: SHOPLIFTERS (2018) / PADDINGTON 2 (2017) |
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| Love in systems of oppression: BARBARA (2012) / PHOENIX (2014) / TRANSIT (2018) |
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| Tiny budget, incendiary speeches: ZÜRI BRÄNNT (1981) / BORN IN FLAMES (1983) |
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| Italianitá in contemporary Roman bohemia in LA GRANDE BELLEZZA (2013) ... |
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| ...vs working class migrant workers in Basel in SIAMO ITALIANI (1964) |
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| Self-empowerment: WOMAN AT WAR (2018) / VOLVER (2006) |
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| Good Friday. ABOUT ENDLESSNESS (2019) / LEVIATHAN (2014) |
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| Desire in isolation: PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU (2019) / HÖHENFEUER (1985) |
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| Easter Sunday: AMAZING GRACE (1972/2018) / LA FAMILLE BÉLIER (2014) |
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| It's never too late to engage with James Baldwin: IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (2018) / I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (2017) |
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| Beyond civilisation, between human and animal: MONOS (2019) / LA TORTUE ROUGE (2016) |
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| (Dys)functional families with a lot of heart: MA VIE DE COURGETTE (2016) / LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (2006) |
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| Unreliable narrators in uncomfortable literary adaptations: BURNING (2018) / NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) |
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| Drawn into war: CHRIS THE SWISS (2018) / LES MISÉRABLES (2019) |
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| Hairy characters: TONI ERDMANN (2016) / DÄLLEBACH KARI (1970) |
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| Trying to connect: THE FAREWELL (2019) / ON BODY AND SOUL (2017) / ALOYS (2016) |
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| On and off in black and white: COLD WAR (2018) / FRANCES HA (2012) |
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| More than prison films: LES HIRONDELLES DE KABOUL (2019) / THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) / LA GRANDE ILLUSION (1937) |
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| Growing up in different neighborhoods: EIGHTH GRADE (2018) / DIVINES (2016) |
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| Falling in love: CAROL (2015) / CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (2017) / GOD'S OWN COUNTRY (2017) |
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| Family ties: MIDNIGHT FAMILY (2019) / STILL WALKING (2008) |
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| Shifting Sympathies: A SEPARATION (2011) / MARRIAGE STORY (2019) |
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| Back to the first theme "parents" in films about the filmmakers' own parents: VERGISS MEIN NICHT (2012) / RAY & LIZ (2019) |