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On Sunday Afternoon

On Sunday Afternoon

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1967

Runtime

0h 26m

Genres

Drama, Crime

User Score

38%

Original Title

Dimanche après-midi

Director

Jean-Claude Brisseau

Description

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'.