The Auteur Devotee
“You watch the director, not the movie.”
You treat a director’s name like a promise. Formal control, recurring obsessions and a camera with an actual point of view matter more than a tidy plot or an easy evening.
The diagnosis
What you get right
You notice intention. Composition, rhythm and authorship are not decoration to you; they are the movie. You are unusually willing to follow a difficult filmmaker somewhere new.
Your blind spot
You can excuse emotional distance, punishing runtimes and plain boredom when the right name is above the title. Sometimes discipline is just a beautifully framed rut.
Your ideal movie night
A restored print, a director retrospective and enough time afterward to argue that the least accessible entry is secretly the key to the whole filmography.
Recognition test
Three tell-tale signs
- You remember directors before actors.
- “Interesting failure” is sincere praise in your vocabulary.
- You have defended at least one three-hour film by discussing its blocking.
Taste map
Where you lean
Theory is cheap
Let ten movies tell on you.
The card test measures the pattern instead of asking you to describe yourself politely.