unfulfilled dreams

Citizen Kane dies reaching for a sled. Llewyn Davis plays the same set to the same empty room. A playwright counts the days until thirty, terrified he'll arrive with nothing written. A teenager in Taipei watches the world his parents promised him fail to materialise.

These are films about the dream that didn't come — or came wrong, or came too late. The weight isn't failure exactly; it's the distance between what was imagined and what actually happened. Some characters keep reaching. Some stop. The film notices either way.

Films here also carry Loneliness & Isolation, Moral Ambiguity, Coming of Age, Identity Crisis, Forbidden Love · Most represented: Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jia Zhangke, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen.