Mourning the Self: Treatment of the Unrepresentable Dimension of the Reality of Death in Cinema

Our research called “Melancholy and Mourning” deals with issues related to the representation of self-mourning in the cinema. Indeed, films ofgreat aesthetics deal with the apocalypse and are at the origin of contemporary philosophical issues. What do these directors want to show when theylook at th...

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Main Authors: Benhaim, Michèle, Broda, Vladimir
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2020
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/eticaycine/article/view/29191
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Summary:Our research called “Melancholy and Mourning” deals with issues related to the representation of self-mourning in the cinema. Indeed, films ofgreat aesthetics deal with the apocalypse and are at the origin of contemporary philosophical issues. What do these directors want to show when theylook 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 thisdeadly 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” ofthe announced death or the shortage of time, notably through Melancholia (2011) and Juste La Fin Du Monde (2016).