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History and memory: the left melancholy in The Last Bolshevik by Chris Marker
2019
PORTO ARTE Revista de Artes Visuais
The image of the history in the fi lm The last Bolshevik by Chris Marker consists of a double act of remembrance: remembering the friend and deceased fi lmmaker, Alexandre Medvedkin, as well as reviewing the history of communism as it succumbs. I discuss the fi lm in the perspective of Enzo Traverso's notion of "left melancholy." The melancholy in the fi lm seeks to redeem the insurgents who have succumbed by fi ghting for an authentic utopia. In making the double mourning, The Last Bolshevik
doi:10.22456/2179-8001.98266
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