Un instant d’innocence ou les instances du non-sens
A Moment of Innocence – Enacting the Lack of Sense

Summary/Abstract: The impossibility of comprehension concerns not only the subject’s relation to the other, but it also extends between the subject and his past. Just likeFreud’s navel of the dream, in Mohssen Makhmalbaf’s film A Moment of Innocence(1996) the unravelling of the characters’ lives and the spinning of their phantasmaticperspectives start from the same point of radical lack of sense. The movie’s playbetween reality and fiction renders possible a shift from the violence of the past intrusion of real into the subject’s life to the temporized acknowledgement of the inconsistencies in his own discourse.

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