Abstract

A dozen of actors goes to the funeral of a theatre director and found out he left them a wish: they would have to appreciate “Eurydice’s” performance by a young new company. While they are watching the tape, they start acting, since they’ve been actors in it before. This Eurydice’s version shows us three simultaneous stagings. Moreover, in this film Eurydice and Orfeo have to fight against their jealousy, and also to their parent’s wishes. Hades, hell’s god, has a special role, he is who seems to know about live and dead, and when the love ends. Resnais, at his 90’s, calls this film — by now his last one — paraphrasing some words said by the principal actor in his first film (Hiroshima, mon amour, 1959): “You have not seen nothing in Hiroshima, yet”. These enigmatic words will make us look this film in many different gazes.

Key words: Love | gaze | Eurydice | Orfeo | Lacan | Resnais