I would recommend Theo Angelopoulos's "Eternity and a Day", the French films, "Savage Nights"(Les Nuits Sauvage) directed by Cyril Collard, and "Don't forget you're going to die"(N'oublie pas que tu sera morte) directed by Xavier Beauvois, and to a certain extent, I would even say that Mike Figgis's "One Night Stand" and "Leaving Las Vegas"(with their plots/sub-plots of disenchantment and dying AIDS victims) mediate the question of death, physical and spiritual in its dimensions.
The French films I mentioned are particularly haunting, needless to say, since their subject matter, of AIDS victims trying to face up or escape the fact that they will die of AIDS sooner or later, is virtually unheard of in French cinema and the recent developments in French cinema towards proto-feminist cinema and comedies like "Huit Femmes" and "Emporte-Moi". Angelopoulos's film is somewhat interesting because it takes on the structure of a dream-like odyssey undertaken by its protagonist, an old man who must face that he is somewhat "dead", and has one day to face up to the fact.
Kevin
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