Films that take three watches to understand: your recommendations

[Sharp Scholar]

Not films that are unnecessarily confusing or hiding clarity behind affectation. Films where the second or third watch reveals a layer of craft that was invisible the first time and fundamentally changes what the film is doing.

The kind where you arrive at the credits uncertain, then think about it for a week, then rewatch and understand that the ambiguity was structural and intentional, that the film knew exactly what it was doing from the first frame.

[Blake_73]

Mulholland Drive. The first watch: confused and slightly unsettled. The second watch: the structure starts to emerge. The third watch: every image is load-bearing and you cannot unsee how precisely it is constructed.