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Love Unto Death
FRANCE · 1984

Love Unto Death

Alain Resnais
mortality and death love and devotion resurrection faith and spirituality grief and acceptance
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Synopsis

Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but returns to life. Despite declining further medical tests, the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. Eventually, they tell their close friends Jérôme and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are both clerics, and Judith has just been giving a funeral service for a villager who committed suicide, though Jérôme would have nothing to do with suicide...

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