1984 · drama · romance · death
Love Unto Death
Directed by Alain Resnais1h 33m1984
Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but returns to life. Despite declining further medical tests, the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. Eventually, they 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...
Our read: Love Unto Death (1984) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, inventive drama · romance · death entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, slow-burn, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- slow-burn
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- signature
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