Beau is Afraid was the last one I recall. I think it was mostly the latter half of the movie where I started to get a bit confused and needed the ending explained to me.
What movies made you look up some kind of explanation afterwards? I feel like I have done it several times in the past for more surreal movies but can’t think of any other examples.
It can also be a TV show.
And a bunch more.
Which one is your fav out of this list?
Of these, I think mother!. The Images and vibes there are taking up the most rent-free space in my brain.
I neglected to mention Gasper Noe; basically everything he’s done. But his work leans too hard into palpable horrors for me to ever actively recommend.
Titane is excellent, though I prefer Ducournau’s previous film Raw
Honestly it seems like a lot of Aronofsky films are deeper than they appear at surface level.
Loved Pi back in the day.
HBO were, for a while, planning an Aaronofsky helmed adaptation of Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood. I’m so sad that it got canned, it would have been absolutely demented.
(I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that Nicholas Winding Refn is working on Famous Five now)
I loved the Fountain. Want to rewatch but fear I hyped it up too much in my memory.