The Art of Loose Ends

By: Duncan Gray

An ongoing tribute to films that get an artistic effect from leaving a key climactic moment ambiguous or refusing to resolve a central plot point. Suggestions are more than welcome! (Help me out here…which ones am I missing?)

• 01
  Hidden
  Michael Haneke
• 02
  L'avventura
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 03
  Picnic at Hanging Rock
  Peter Weir
• 04
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 05
  Children of Men
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 06
  Winter's Bone
  Debra Granik
• 07
  Diabolique
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 08
  Blow-Up
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 09
  Meek's Cutoff
  Kelly Reichardt
• 10
  Suspicion
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 11
  Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 12
  Martha Marcy May Marlene
  Sean Durkin
• 13
  Footnote
  Joseph Cedar
• 14
  The Thing
  John Carpenter