At just 33, writer - director Alex Ross Perry has fashioned beautiful and
mysterious relationship dramas that hark back to the heydays of Robert Altman, John Cassavetes, Ingmar Bergman, and Woody Allen.
Not exact matches
Relying on assumptions and prejudices brought into the film by the audience as much as anything shown on screen, The Loneliest Planet is something of a distant cousin to Roman Polanski's 1962
drama Knife in the Water, where a
relationship is threatened and the presence of a
mysterious other man is used to unsettle.
Paul Thomas Anderson's eerie Gothic
drama about the
relationship between a dressmaker (Daniel Day - Lewis) and his muse (Vicky Krieps) in post-war London has the clearest thesis of any of the writer - director's post-Punch-Drunk Love work, though it's expressed in
mysterious terms, characterized by ellipses and contradictions.