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 rushes past their eyes; "In Search of Lost Time" captures all the memories of this life at the moment before death. Flowing with consciousness, looking at photographs brings to mind past events related to that person, and from a subtle action/item in those memories, one recalls other associated pasts, continually free associating, thus intricately sketching out the life of the protagonist, Marcel. It is undoubtedly a futile endeavor to present the entirety of the monumental original work "In Search of Lost Time" in a short film of just 2 hours and 40 minutes. Therefore, the director wisely captures the sense of stream of consciousness from the original, allowing the audience to feel as if they have entered a dream, as they navigate through Marcel's thoughts, repeatedly traversing different experiences of his long life, which evokes the mystery of memories while also making it easy to get lost within. The film occasionally features surreal scene transitions, such as Marcel sitting on a chair, sliding past the news film screen; Marcel walking halfway down the street suddenly slipping, pausing as his body leans forward, while the background continuously changes, then he slides into the next scene; or entering a space filled with scattered statues, where the audience feels as though they are in a dream, fully expressing that the act of "recollection" is quite similar to "dreaming." The frequent still images and statue imagery throughout the film further express the desire to hold onto memories. In the act of recollecting, one inevitably presents a dialectic on "memory": "If the memories produced by forgetting no longer relate to the present at all, allowing us to instantly experience new sensations, then we have already experienced these... Every analogous fanciful thought always takes me away from the now..." The film concludes with the story of the 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 allowing it to vividly remain in our hearts.