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Image de la mémoire, L'

1987, 08:00 minutes, colour, French

TAPECODE 9135

In order to eventually control a woman's thoughts and desires, a man pressures her to re-read specific passages designed to make her remember the events which occured at the time of her lover's death. For the woman, at first, it was a way of playing with the thoughts of both men in a game where relationships are conjugated in the future perfect; in what will have been.
How will the man who is already a prisoner of her memory react? How about the woman who is already a prisoner of her memory react? How about the woman who is reciting her stories in her always immediate yet repeated perception of her memory, that enclosed space where fragments of life are ever present...

Une femme, un homme, une mémoire mise à vif. Sous la pression d'un homme qui l'oblige à lire et relire sans cesse divers récits, une femme tente la reconstitution de son histoire interrompue quelque part à la mort de son amant. Qui oblige qui dans cette infernale poursuite? L'homme, déjà prisonnier de son souvenir à elle, ou la femme récitant ses histoires dans la perception à la fois immédiate et répétée de sa mémoire, ce lieu clos où s'agitent et se construisent des fragments de vie...

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