Director Breakdowns

The spirit of silent comedy is kept alive in Jacque Tati’s eccentric satires, sending up the inefficient distractions of modern civilisation through bizarrely constructed architectural monuments and gags, many of which stand among cinema’s most brilliantly odd set pieces.

As a leading figure in cinematic, philosophical storytelling, Krzysztof Kieslowski probes metaphysical questions of fate, morality, and spirituality, using sensual colour palettes and symbolic cutaways to better understand the lives that lie just beyond our immediate perspectives.

With a commitment to raw realism and segmented narrative structures, Jia Zhangke crafts scathing indictments of iron-fisted authority, modernity, and globalisation, setting himself up as a significant leading figure among the Sixth Generation of Chinese filmmakers.