Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Elisabeth and Simon have been living an intense love story when Simon momentarily dies and comes back to life. Overwhelmed by his experience, Simon refuses any further medical tests. While his health is still fragile, he intends to make the most of the time he has left to live.
Elisabeth and Simon have been living an intense love story when Simon momentarily dies and comes back to life. Overwhelmed by his experience, Simon refuses any further medical tests. While his health is still fragile, he intends to make the most of the time he has left to live.
In what is, in essence, his vampire movie, Alain Resnais waxes theological about a love so selfless that it would waltz right into death’s arms. Starring alongside a captivating Fanny Ardant, Sabine Azéma is the fanatical devotee of the shadow realm, cloaked in black and ravished under red light.