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Après-midi trilogie

3 titles · in release order

A trilogy of experimental shorts by French filmmaker, Jean-Claude Brisseau. Utilizing the same cast members each film acts out repeating motifs of morbid meditation, erotic daydreams, and violent death. Seemingly a product of the cultural malaise leading to Mai '68, the connection is made explicit with documentary footage in the final silent entry, 'L'Après-midi d'un jeune homme qui s'ennuie.'

On Sunday AfternoonOn Sunday Afternoon · 1967
On Sunday Afternoon
★ 3.21967
MovieDramaCrime
A voice, warm and heartbreaking, that of Brisseau himself, coils over black and white images. The tone was set very quickly: "To wake up is to be born again in the world of despair." 'On Sunday afternoon' is a film all at once clinical and theoretical on melancholy in the strong sense of the famous "black bile" of the Greeks whose author seems to want to make a complete turn, from his tragic dimension to his psychological dimension, even ending his film with a long quote from Freud's 'Mourning and Melancholia'.
The Afternoon of a Bored Young ManThe Afternoon of a Bored Young Man · 1968
The Afternoon of a Bored Young Man
★ 4.01968
MovieDramaDocumentary
Paris, Latin Quarter, May 1968. Images of barricades and police movements in the street. In his bedroom, on his bed, a young man indulges in daydreams that invade the whole space.
Death in the AfternoonDeath in the Afternoon · 1968
Death in the Afternoon
★ 4.91968
MovieDrama
A man stabbed to death is haunted by his memories and fantasies while dying alone.