3º – The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
In the middle of the 1950s, taking as our starting point the reality of a small North American city, we will follow the daily lives of young people eager for emotions in their lives. We will understand their routines, their desires, the importance of that city in their lives and the inherent desire for something more impossible to be found in that place inside them all. A masterpiece in all its instances, ‘The Last Picture Show’, a film from Peter Bogdanovich’s cinema, studies time in its most intense meanderings, showing the character of subjectivity in its characters, besides pondering on the power of a decision in our journeys.
2º – Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski, 1992)
Surrounded by the reality of a holiday cruise, Nigel, a man in his 30s, finds himself completely obsessed with the life story of an individual in a wheelchair. In these told stories, Nigel will listen to all the most sordid details of that man’s sexual life, always having the figure of his strange companion. Directed by Roman Polanski, this film has as its central point for the events of the plot the concept of obsession that dominates the two male characters, making explicit an erratic and destructive sphere of the human heart. The aspect of “becoming” contained in the film fits into the way time acts on some characters, subverting their roles and personalities.
1º – Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
A French actress lives an intense and ephemeral passion with a resident of the city Hiroshima while acting in a film on the spot. Always having as background the consequences that World War II caused in the city, the film brings us a simple plot, mixing pain and pleasure, obtaining its success by its scenes captured in a masterly way by director Alain Resnais, especially the opening plan.
