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L'Amour à mort

L'Amour à mort

1984
Romance
Drama
1h 32m
Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually tell their close friends Jérôme and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are both clerics, and Judith has just been giving a funeral service for a villager who committed suicide, though Jérôme would have nothing to do with suicide...
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L'Amour à mort

1984
Romance
Drama
1h 32m
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Avg Percentile 57.92% from 72 total ratings

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Rated 06 Jan 2023
58
42nd
Judgement will ultimately depend on one's response to Resnais's use of formalism. This viewer found it somewhat distracting, and the drama itself is quite typical of European films of its time.
Rated 20 Aug 2020
84
95th
Extremely singleminded, more so than LE FEU FOLLET, despite remaining a kind of open text. One of the ideas it raises concerns contagion, and perhaps this risk applies to the film itself. Nevertheless, it is very well directed, with a very unusual but successful alternation between actual scenes and pauses for music, forming a kind of counterpoint. Seemingly every single decision was dictated by the requirements of the work: credit the director. But it has to be said: enter at own risk.
Rated 03 Nov 2014
25
22nd
Visually this looks good in a way kind of similar to '80s Godard, but otherwise it's sort of like Resnais doing Bergman which for me at least is basically the epitome of dullness.

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