Movies and books about Relationships

Isabel Coixet (director)

The film «The Secret Life of Words» (dir. Isabel Coixet) is not just a chamber-style drama but a careful exploration of how a person with psychologica…

Craig Mazin, Neil Druckmann

«Одни из нас» (English: The Last of Us; more accurate translation — «Последние из нас») from the perspective of gestalt therap…

Hayao Miyazaki

"In old age, it's good that there's less to lose" — Sophie Howl’s Moving Castle is a magical story of personal growth for two people, a fairy tale…

Woody Allen

Plot The protagonist Mort Rifkin’s first dream in Woody Allen’s film Rifkin’s Festival begins with the words: “When I fell asleep that night, I had a…

Marc Randolph

Companies that have reached a certain level and have a history also have a beautiful story about their founding. The author of the book about the hist…

Elizabeth Gilbert

God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of chocolates... The book Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert, a well-known writer, is going…

Bradley Cooper

It’s impossible to make an honest film about addiction if you haven’t experienced it yourself. In my opinion, this is one of the best movies on the su…

Bong Joon-ho

Today, the weather outside turned into a real freezer. It’s extremely hard to do anything besides sleeping, eating, and watching movies. I was lucky—b…

Thomas Vinterberg

It's amazing how one's own desire to change something, to refresh life, can influence the course of events and completely turn everything upside down.…

Jane Campion

The events take place in the mid-19th century. Ada McGrath, along with her daughter, moves from Scotland to New Guinea to marry Alisdair Stewart, a m…

Todd Solondz

A comparative analysis of the psychological role of the dachshund in four episodes of Todd Solondz’s German film Wiener Dog (2016), through the lens o…

Fred Cavayé

The protagonist's father is a spendthrift, and to avoid becoming like him, he has been saving every penny since childhood—even retrieving leftover too…

Rachel Abbott

Modern civilized society condemns domestic violence at the legislative and declarative levels. Yet, on an everyday level, attitudes toward victims oft…

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The beginning of the novel evokes our stereotypes about the 1920s in America. "Our" stereotypes are those of people who could not see the reality of t…

Fannie Flagg

«Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe» by American author Fannie Flagg begins in a very mundane way. The text is written in the simple langua…

Margaret Atwood

The dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood remarkably illustrates how fragile the achievements of human civilization truly are. It sho…

Darren Aronofsky

Couldn’t pass it by) Besides, the trailer really intrigued me!I’ll say right away—I wasn’t expecting it! I wasn’t expecting the film to be so heavy an…

Yevhen Volobuyev-Senior

In the foreword to this book, the daughter of the renowned Ukrainian artist Yevhen Volobuiev Sr., Natalia Volobuieva, writes that some pages may only…

Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre is often casually dismissed as one of those love stories—or what are called "women’s novels." It seems straightforw…

Aaron Lipstadt, Peter Werner, Vince Misiano

In modern TV series, unfortunately, it’s rare to find a central character whose marriage is not only present but also healthy and remains intact throu…

Silvio Soldini

Notes on Emotional Dependency This article is based on a film. I propose an analysis of the main theme through the lens of therapeutic perspectives on…

Sam Taylor-Wood (director), E.L. James (writer)

Fifty Shades of Grey Dorian, pardon, Christian Grey and his "Fifty Shades" cannot claim to be a masterpiece of world cinema. The setting of the "youn…

Tate Taylor

"Girl on the Train" is the adaptation of the famous detective novel by Paula Hawkins. I haven’t read the book, but I enjoyed the film as it made me re…

Nikolai Gogol

CAUTION, HERO! LIFE WITH TARAS BULBA Gogol’s works are multidimensional and filled with symbols. At first glance, Taras Bulba stands apart. It contain…

Mark Osborne

Read the following quotes. "There is one rule you must always keep in mind. When you wake up in the morning, wash your face, put yourself in order—and…