One Shot is a series that seeks to find an essence of cinema history in one single image of a movie. Alain Resnais's Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) is showing May 12 - June 11, 2020 in many countries in the series The Unconventional Narratives of Alain Resnais.A recurring image in Alain Resnais’s Mon oncle d'Amerique (1980) is an island, the childhood home of the film’s characters. Its first appearance is followed by a monologue, based on the writings of philosopher Henri Laborit, on the chemical processes taking place in the brain and nervous system that constitute pleasure and memory. A hallmark of Resnais’s most celebrated films is the notion of physical place as an analog, mnemonic, or repository of past experience—such as the unseen Czechoslovak spa town at Last Year at Marienbad (1961), the curiously empty streets of Boulogne in Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963), or in Mon oncle d’Amerique,...
- 5/27/2020
- MUBI
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