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On Sunday Afternoon (1967) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1967 · 26 mins · French
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- Starring
- Jean-Claude Brisseau
Brisseau’s own voice narrates over black‑and‑white images, setting the mood with “To wake up is to be born again in the world of despair.” The film examines melancholy clinically and theoretically, invoking the Greek notion of black bile, shifting from tragedy to psychology, and ends with a Freud quote from “Mourning and Melancholia.”
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