Jeremy Urquhart is a writer at Collider who focuses on the Godzilla series, the films of Martin Scorsese, and anything in the action genre.
You could define arthouse cinema as an “I know it when I see it” type of thing, but if more detail is needed, films definable as “arthouse”tend to be unconventional, potentially niche, usually very personal/singular, and also challenging. Arthouse movies can achieve some level of popularity if they speak to enough people, but such films rarely come close to feeling like blockbusters, and are most easily recommendable to viewers who want to experience something different.
The movie feels like an extended epic-length dream sequence, with reality and potential other worlds/universes colliding as the loose story follows two women linked together, both forced to contend with various fantastical situations. It’s not a big-budget or special effects-heavy fantasy movie, instead falling within the genre because of its surreal and dreamlike elements.
7 'Alice' Director: Jan Švankmajer Close Most adaptations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – even the child-friendly ones – tend to get pretty strange and surreal, but 1988’s Alice feels like the basic story taken to 11 and made as unsettling as possible. The basic premise is familiar, following a young girl as she journeys into a fantastical world and has to find a way out, but the presentation is what makes Alice stand out.
Along the way, The Seventh Seal is also intensely philosophical and quite downbeat, though not without a hint of hope at the end of a remarkably dark tunnel, so to speak. It covers a lot of ground in not a lot of time, which makes The Seventh Seal the sort of film that’s best to let marinate in one’s mind, revisit, or read up on afterward. It’s ambitious to a fault and still holds up surprisingly well, despite its age, and is a world cinema classic, no matter how you might choose to classify it.
2 'Holy Motors' Director: Leos Carax Leos Carax specializes in making films that are as surreal as they are divisive, with 2012’s Holy Motors being the one that arguably feels the most fantastical of anything he’s made so far. Instead of a narrative, there’s really just a premise here, but it’s thankfully a fascinating and intriguing one, following a man as he’s driven around from one strange job to the next, each necessitating him taking on a different identity.
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