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Movie poster: Requiem à l'aube (1977)
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Requiem à l'aube

1977 · 86 min
1.0 / 10 · TMDB

Ferdinand lives in a universe cluttered with symbols. "A" seems more attached to a very structured daily life. When "A" meets Ferdinand, the whole balance he lives in will crumble. First an "aesthetic" attraction which will turn into desire will reveal to him his true image. He will then switch into what he called "madness", unreason. Ferdinand's world is, on the contrary, unimaginable, because outside of all morality, of all Manichaeism. It is a "revealed" world because his homosexuality has transformed his view of things. Will the relationship established between Ferdinand and "A" be viable? Will there be a necessity of death, or a possibility of life?

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📋 Film Details

Year 1977
Director Olivier Desbordes
Runtime 86 min.
Rating TMDB: 1.0/10 (2 votes)

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The film constructs a fragile psychological duel, relying on the contrast between a structured mind and the liberating chaos of desire. It explores the precise moment when a long-suppressed inner truth shatters every defensive facade of the self.

What lingers after viewing is a profoundly unsettling yet sensual portrait of self-annihilation, where eroticism becomes the language of both revelation and demise. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Olivier Desbordes

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