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Now showing — A Lover's Discourse · 5 works

  • 9 Songs Film · 2000s

    A glaciologist remembers a love affair entirely through sex and live concerts. Winterbottom's most explicit and structurally spare film.

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  • A Short Film About Love is a 1988 film from Poland, associated with Krzysztof Kieślowski. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.

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  • A robot child is programmed to love his human mother — who abandons him. Spielberg completes Kubrick's fairy tale about what it means to be real.

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  • A Lover's Discourse Books · 1970s

    A Lover's Discourse: Fragments is a 1977 book by Roland Barthes. It contains a list of "fragments", some of which come from literature and some from his own philosophical thought, of a lover's point of view. Barthes calls them "figures"—gestures of the lover at work.

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  • Love's Labour's Lost Books · 1590s

    Love's Labour's Lost is a 1598 book by William Shakespeare, linked to England and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.

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