Alain Resnais's L'Amour à mort | Love Unto Death (1984)

Resnais believes that meeting a loved one is very important in life, and mentions a peasant expression from the Ardèche: 'Quand on a du bien on a du mal', or 'Where there is good there is bad'. He says that the important thing is to make things last as you're surrounded by dangers, the most extreme being death, and he questions how can love be intensified. Resnais also calls himself an 'athée mystique', an expression he retained from the German poet Stefan George.

Elisabeth (Sabine Azéma) is living with the (older) archaeologist Simon (Pierre Arditi) when he dies one night, as witnessed by Dr Rozier (Jean Dasté). But he isn't dead at all and, as it were, comes to life.

Death permanently arrests time. But Simon and Judith (Fanny Ardant) – now married to Simon's best friend Jérôme (André Dussollier) – didn't achieve this in their failed young suicide pact. Instead, Elizabeth has to come to this conclusion after Simon's second death: he's too haunted by his former death to make sense of a second life, so Elizabeth joins him.