In Search of Lost Time

This film (drama)Also known asLe temps retrouvé，is aFrance, Italy, PortugalProducerwomen sex，At1999Released in year 。The dialogue language isFrench，Current Douban rating7.6(For reference only)。

Before death, a person's life flashes before their eyes; "In Search of Lost Time" is a reminiscence of everything in this life at the moment of near death. With the flow of consciousness, memories tied to each person are evoked while looking at photos, and from a subtle action/object remembered from the past, other related memories emerge, resulting in a complex intertwining depiction of the protagonist Marcel's life. It is undoubtedly a tall order to present the entirety of the monumental original work "In Search of Lost Time" in just 2 hours and 40 minutes. Therefore, the director wisely captures the feeling of stream of consciousness in the original text, allowing the audience to enter a dreamlike state as they follow Marcel's thoughts, oscillating back and forth among the myriad experiences of his long life, experiencing the wonder of memory while also making it easy to get lost within it. The film frequently features surreal scene transitions, such as Marcel sitting on a chair while a news film screen shifts in front of him; Marcel suddenly slipping while walking on the street, freezing in mid-fall as the background continually changes, then he slides into the next scene; or entering a distorted space filled with statues, making the audience feel as if they were in a dream, fully expressing that the act of "remembering" is extremely similar to "dreaming." The recurring still images and statue imagery in the film further reflect the attempt to hold onto memories by freezing them into a moment. In this act of remembrance, the film also poses a dialectical question about "memory": "If the memories brought about by forgetting bear no relation to the present, allowing us to instantaneously experience new phenomena, in fact, we have already experienced these... Every analogy drawn brings me further away from now..." The film concludes with the story of sculptor Savini, expressing the concept of "eternity": as long as something has happened, it is eternal; it does not disappear, it simply does not return, thus remaining vividly alive in one's heart.