Movies and TvShows featuring "cynicism-about-love" theme.

Learning to Drive is a comedy-drama movie about a middle-aged woman who forms an unlikely friendship with a Sikh driving instructor. As she tries to navigate her failing marriage and learns to drive, she discovers a new sense of freedom and independence. The movie explores themes of cultural differences, personal growth, and finding oneself.

A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners). His bourgeois family are wary of the shame that he will bring so he must try to redeem himself and his family's name.

After being jilted by her former lover, a female author becomes cynical about love. However, when a charming cartoonist enters her life, she finds herself falling for him against her better judgment. Will she be able to overcome her past and embrace love once again? Find out in this hilarious and heartwarming romantic comedy.

The single channel video STICK IT combines television footage of women's gymnastics with recordings of the artist attempting the same routines. Merging himself and the young gymnasts of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta into one composite character, he enters an ambivalent position between envy, identification, rejection and critique of these highly controlled bodies and their restricted performative roles. The video follows the preparation and execution of a floor routine, suspending the marginal moment right before the action, encapsulating ambition, the pressure to succeed and the looming possibility of failure.