MARCH 2020
Université Aix-Marseille
michelebenhaim3@gmail.comAbstract
Our research called “Melancholy and Mourning” deals with issues related to the representation of self-mourning in the cinema. Indeed, films of great aesthetics deal with the apocalypse and are at the origin of contemporary philosophical issues. What do these directors want to show when they look at the painful question of the end, of death, of the irreversibility of time? Why do they all counterbalance the points of horror contained in this deadly dead end with sublime images of beauty ? Does this mean that the death of one, of all, cannot be represented? Or rather, more profoundly, does this mean that the death announced cannot be apprehended? However, Lars Von Trier and Xavier Dolan unmask in a certain way this "real" of the announced death or the shortage of time, notably through Melancholia (2011) and Juste La Fin Du Monde (2016).
Keywords: Melancholy | mourning | representation | unrepresentable | aesthetics | cinema
This article is, for the time being, only available in French: Le deuil de soi : traitement de la dimension irreprésentable du réel de la mort au cinéma and Spanish Melancolía y duelo. El duelo de sí mismo: tratamiento de la dimensión irrepresentable de lo real de la muerte en el cine
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Volumen 10 | Nº 1
Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics
