When I started to hatch a plan to relaunch 12 Reasons Why I Love Her for its tenth anniversary--in stores now!--I had some weird notion that we might one day do a film festival with movies that inspired the book or otherwise have something in common with it. Namely, films with fractured timelines, or multiple storylines that overlap and backtrack and alter how you view what came before, or that otherwise take a unique approach to showing a relationship. I made a list on my phone and I've been carrying it around for god knows how long. Here is what I had settled on, were you inclined to undertake this festival on your own:
Two for the Road (1967), dir. Stanley Donen
Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight (1995/2004/2013), dir. Richard Linklater
Scenes from a Marriage (1973); dir. Ingmar Bergman
5X2 (2004), dir. Francois Ozon
Three Times (2005), dir. Hou Hsiao Hsien
In the Mood For Love (2000)/2046 (2004), dir. Wong Kar-Wai
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), dir. Alain Resnais
The Day He Arrives (2011)/In Another Country (2012), dir. Hong San-soo
Reconstruction (2003), dir. Christoffer Boe
Lucas Belvaux's Trilogy (2002)
13 Conversations About One Thing (2001), dir. Jill Sprecher
Sliding Doors (1998), dir. Peter Howitt