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On Sunday Afternoon

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Audience Score
38
On Sunday Afternoon
NR 26 minDrama, CrimeAprès-midi trilogie PosterPart of Après-midi trilogie
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A voice, warm and heartbreaking, that of Brisseau himself, coils over black and white images. The tone was set very quickly: "To wake up is to be born again in the world of despair." 'On Sunday afternoon' is a film all at once clinical and theoretical on melancholy in the strong sense of the famous "black bile" of the Greeks whose author seems to want to make a complete turn, from his tragic dimension to his psychological dimension, even ending his film with a long quote from Freud's 'Mourning and Melancholia'.
StarringJean-Claude Brisseau
DirectorJean-Claude Brisseau
WriterJean-Claude Brisseau

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Original Language:French
On Sunday Afternoon on the Web:Official Website

Après-midi trilogie

A trilogy of experimental shorts by French filmmaker, Jean-Claude Brisseau. Utilizing the same cast members each film acts out repeating motifs of morbid meditation, erotic daydreams, and violent death. Seemingly a product of the cultural malaise leading to Mai '68, the connection is made explicit with documentary footage in the final silent entry, 'L'Après-midi d'un jeune homme qui s'ennuie.'