1984
Alain Resnais
L' amour a mort
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Elisabeth (Sabine Azéma) and Simon (Pierre Arditi) have been together as a couple for only a few months when Simon dies. To everyone’s surprise he revives after a few minutes and appears to be quite healthy again. The couple’s relationship appears to become more intense, but Simon is unable to come to terms with his near-death experience, feeling an irresistible desire to withdraw from life. Their friends, a married couple of Protestant pastors, Judith (Fanny Ardant) and Jérôme (André Dussollier) try to rationalise how Simon and Elisabeth must feel, offering guidance and consolation through theological and philosophical discussions, but the couple are beyond the reach of human understanding or explanation, and the pervasive and persuasive music of ‘the other’, of a love beyond death, exerts an irresistible attraction.
Constantly searching for a new form of expression, expanding on and even defying traditional cinema techniques, Resnais turned to composer Hans Werner Henze to create musical pieces for the film, not as a soundtrack to underline the emotions of the characters, but as scenes in themselves, telling part of the story that cannot be described or illustrated with images – Simon’s death, and the confusion and turmoil of emotions that his near-death experience has filled him with.
Constantly searching for a new form of expression, expanding on and even defying traditional cinema techniques, Resnais turned to composer Hans Werner Henze to create musical pieces for the film, not as a soundtrack to underline the emotions of the characters, but as scenes in themselves, telling part of the story that cannot be described or illustrated with images – Simon’s death, and the confusion and turmoil of emotions that his near-death experience has filled him with.
Filmography
- L'aventure de Guy (1936)
- Schéma d'une identification (1946)
- Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire (1946)
- Visite à Oscar Dominguez (1947)
- Visite à Lucien Coutaud (1947)
- Visite à Hans Hartnung (1947)
- Visite à Félix Labisse (1947)
- Visite à César Doméla (1947)
- Van Gogh (1947)
- Portrait d'Henri Goetz (1947)
- Le lait Nestlé (1947)
- Journée naturelle (1947)
- La bague (1947)
- L'alcool tue (1947) (as Alzin Rezarail)
- Van Gogh (1948)
- Malfray (1948)
- Les jardins de Paris (1948)
- Châteaux de France (1948)
- Guernica (1950/I)
- Gauguin (1950)
- Pictura (1952)
- Les statues meurent aussi (1953)
- Night and Fog (1955)
- Toute la mémoire du monde (1956)
- Le mystère de l'atelier quinze (1957)
- Le chant du Styrène (1958)
- Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
- L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961)
- Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour (1963)
- La Guerre est finie (1966)
- Loin du Vietnam (1967)
- Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968)
- Cinétracts (1968)
- L'an 01 (1973) (New York scenes)
- Stavisky (1974)
- Providence (1977)
- Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
- La vie est un roman (1983)
- L'amour à mort (1984)
- Mélo (1986)
- I Want to Go Home (1989)
- Contre l'oubli (1991)
- Gershwin (1992)
- Smoking/No Smoking (1993)
- On connaît la chanson (1997)
- Pas sur la bouche (2003)
- Cœurs (2006)
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