Cynical Love Stories

By: odile doinel

“This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, ‘Doc, uh, my brother’s crazy; he thinks he’s a chicken.’ And, uh, the doctor says, ‘Well, why don’t you turn him in?’ The guy says, ‘I would, but I need the eggs.’ Well, I guess that’s pretty much now how I feel about relationships; y’know, they’re totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and… but, uh, I guess we keep goin’ through it because, uh, most of us… need the eggs. ”

Films that master that fine line between cinematic sentimentality and the limitations of real life. In my opinion, there’s nothing better…

• 01
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 02
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry
• 03
  Fanny
  Marc Allégret
• 04
  (500) Days of Summer
  Marc Webb
• 05
  Annie Hall
  Woody Allen
• 06
  Scenes from a Marriage — The Theatrical Version
  Ingmar Bergman
• 07
  Paris, Texas
  Wim Wenders
• 08
  The Apartment
  Billy Wilder
• 09
  Punch-Drunk Love
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 10
  Harold and Maude
  Hal Ashby
• 11
  Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 12
  Children of Paradise
  Marcel Carné
• 13
  My Own Private Idaho
  Gus Van Sant
• 14
  Summertime
  David Lean
• 15
  Love in the Afternoon
  Éric Rohmer
• 16
  Loves of a Blonde
  Miloš Forman
• 17
  All the Real Girls
  David Gordon Green
• 18
  Jules and Jim
  François Truffaut
• 19
  The Last Mistress
  Catherine Breillat
• 20
  An Education
  Lone Scherfig