You might enjoy The Weight of Water (2000)

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From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scott Andrew Hutchins [[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: Re: [SCREEN-L] Metafictional Movies

Some examples I can think of:

Crime Wave (John Paizs, 1985, aka The Big Crimewave)
Big Shot's Funeral
After Life is a stretch, but might be what you're after
Ditto Godard's Passion
For Ever Mozart
In Praise of Love
Vagabond might qualify, since it includes direct address.

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---- Barry Langford <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm searching for examples of a rather specific kind of "metafictional" movie:
> where a fictional narrative which either has been, or is in the process of being
> created (written) by one of the characters features directly in the film, i.e. as
> an interpolated dramatised sequence, or sequences. I'm not after backstage
> musicals or plays-within-films (e.g., Bullets Over Broadway, Shakespeare In
> Love) but fictions whose dramatisation occurs so to speak extra-diegetically.
>
> I'd expect that the fiction-within-the-film would have some critical or
> commentary relationship to the frame narrative. However, I'm not looking for
> literary pastiches where a given fictive mode is adopted wholesale in a
> narrative ostensibly centring on a writer identified with that mode (e.g.
> Hammett), but texts where the boundary between reality and fiction remains
> clear if porous.
>
> The writer who obviously and consistently explores the kind of thing I'm
> interested is Dennis Potter (The Singing Detective, Karaoke, etc.). The "Happy
> Endings" sequence in New York, New York offers another take on the principle.
> But I'm keen to accumulate further instances - suggestions gratefully received.
>
> Thanks in advance, Barry
>
>
> Dr Barry Langford
> Senior Lecturer in Film & Television Studies
> Royal Holloway, University of London
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