Films and TV shows that feel like Happy New Year by ABBA
The heavy-hearted realization that a golden era has ended while facing an uncertain, quiet dawn.
- The Worst Person in the World (2021): Captures the precise existential hangover and the bittersweet pang of time slipping away in modern Europe.
- Succession (2018): Mirrors the hollow opulence of high-society gatherings that mask profound personal emptiness and familial fracture.
- In the Mood for Love (2000): Shares the same aching nostalgia for what used to be and the quiet sorrow of unspoken endings.
- Mad Men (2007): Embodies the heavy disillusionment hiding beneath the polished surface of mid-century celebratory culture.
- An Autumn Afternoon (1962): Evokes the gentle, profound loneliness of aging and watching the chapters of your life quietly close.
- Carol (2015): Reflects the melancholic contrast between holiday festivity and internal emotional exile.
- Lost in Translation (2003): Captures the floating, dislocated feeling of staring out a high-rise hotel window while a new year begins below.
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964): Pairs a deceptively beautiful, melodic musicality with the devastating ache of permanent parting.
