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Un lit, grand ouvert et froissé
Comme un bateau désemparé
Plages désertes
Membres inertes
Dégoût de vivre
Paupières mouillées
J’écoute ton cœur effrayé [1]
Absences Répétées opens with the voice of Jeanne Moreau. Carried by a fragile melody, imbued with a sense of romantic urgency, it seems to be addressing François, the film’s protagonist—a novelistic hero glimpsed at first only fleetingly, lying on his bed, bathed in light. Beautiful and young, gentle and somber, he laughs before breaking down in tears. Fired from his monotonous job at a bank—where he now goes only a few days a week to secretly consume heroin—he shuts himself away at home, surrendering to despair. “While I am alone in my room, outside life goes on,” he says.
Moreau’s voice could well be that of François’s girlfriend, unhappy to love a being constantly on the run; or that of his mother, whose desperate visits lead nowhere. Or perhaps it is the voice of his best friend, who has managed to escape this self-destructive world,…
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Un lit, grand ouvert et froissé
Comme un bateau désemparé
Plages désertes
Membres inertes
Dégoût de vivre
Paupières mouillées
J’écoute ton cœur effrayé [1]
Absences Répétées opens with the voice of Jeanne Moreau. Carried by a fragile melody, imbued with a sense of romantic urgency, it seems to be addressing François, the film’s protagonist—a novelistic hero glimpsed at first only fleetingly, lying on his bed, bathed in light. Beautiful and young, gentle and somber, he laughs before breaking down in tears. Fired from his monotonous job at a bank—where he now goes only a few days a week to secretly consume heroin—he shuts himself away at home, surrendering to despair. “While I am alone in my room, outside life goes on,” he says.
Moreau’s voice could well be that of François’s girlfriend, unhappy to love a being constantly on the run; or that of his mother, whose desperate visits lead nowhere. Or perhaps it is the voice of his best friend, who has managed to escape this self-destructive world,…
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