Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s French romantic comedy film Amélie (2001) is a lighthearted fiesta of daily pleasures. It narrates the life of a waitress, Amélie Poulain, who spent her childhood isolated from the outer world, and her journey to bring her little… Read More ›
Surrealist Cinema
This Week’s Features: Aesthetics of Dreams
Fiction itself is an imaginative dimension outside the realm of reality. When authors write about dreams, they remove the ‘ontological distance’ (a term coined by David Mitchell). Because dreams are personal experiences, they often appear in modernist literature to emphasise… Read More ›
The Surrealist Representation of Everyday Life: The Philosophy of Existentialism in David Lynch’s Rabbits
Famous for his great success with Mulholland Drive (2001), David Lynch has been an icon of surrealist aesthetics in the cinematic world. Popularising surrealist cinematography to the mainstream audience, Lynch projects new interpretations of reality onto the big screen through… Read More ›