4º – The Broken Circle Breakdown (Felix van Groeningen, 2012)
After her young daughter gets sick, a couple will begin to direct all their energies in the best way to make the girl’s days better. Working with various concepts of life, ‘The Broken Circle Breakdown’ will still study the figure of mourning in the human race, evidencing all the grief necessary to this ineluctable instance of the world.
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3º – Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
After ruling his life through superficialities and arrogance, an old man will have to fight against the existential emptiness and the imminence of death that have given him nightmares. ‘ Wild Strawberries’ exposes how the figure of maturity can take time to appear in the human being, working on the inexorability of time and making a nihilistic counterpoint with the figure of the past that consumes the character.
2º – Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
After discovering that he has a terminal cancer, a middle-aged man starts to question the insensitive paths his life has taken and decides to live his last moments in the world as intensely as possible. ‘Ikiru’ is separated into two fragments of film, bringing aspects before the death of the protagonist and after his death, breaking with the usual way of telling a story in the movies.
1º – Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
After losing her husband and young daughter in a car accident, a woman will struggle to rebuild her life amid the inexorable suffering that will become part of her essence. Krzysztof Kieslowski’s masterpiece, ‘ Three Colors: Blue ‘ investigates all the processes of mourning that the human being passes after a considerable loss in his life.
