Can't believe Andrej Zulawski hasn't been recommended. He hit the ceiling on hyperanarchic subversion. I'm confident no director has surpassed him in that respect, you kind of lose a taste for base extremity in other movies knowing he's not only taken it so much further, but also explored chaos with lot more narrative impact, as well as sheer physical force in a direction similar to carax with denis lavant's acrobatics
Possession is his most accessible and popular but for the same reason that it offers less than l'amour braque - whose main character is an incomprehensible constantly mobile clumsy autist - or On The Silver Globe - just look it up the whole thing is frankly fucking nuts - also what makes it less appealing than them: its couched in the horror genre.
Ignore whatever you might have heard about Possession from dumb wannabe net moguls cashing in on the trendy new cult hit in the last few years, besides his movies being fucking nuts, by the way. There's a lot more to it than base relationship metaphors, political symbolism and body horror which seems to be the only thing YT reviewers have the capacity to recognize in any movie. It's not some one-off oddity, Zulawski's a proper good director. L'amour braque takes on a destruction of heist similar to Possession's of psychological horror but does it with more pervasive self-annihilation. I think it's his best overall and just as fine a place to start, but none of his are really perfect.
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Watch Fruits of Passion, later by the same director. Amps it up, if you couldn't tell with Klaus Kinski in the lead. Very grateful to have gotten to see it screened last summer