Melancholia Towards a Future to Come
Melancholia Towards a Future to Come

Summary/Abstract: Exploring the cinematic theme of melancholia, as expressed through temporality, constitutes the main focus of this paper. Though, usually the temporality of melancholia is associated with the past, we will try to ponder upon a past-future dialectic temporality where the melancholic seeking of the past becomes reoriented towards a future to come, in the Derridean sense of the term. Regarding this specific temporality, the critical conception articulated by Walter Benjamin in his Theses on the Philosophy of History, also plays a key role in constructing the theoretical framework of the paper, through which we will attempt to investigate the following movies: Hayao Miyazaki – Porco Rosso, Nanni Moretti – Palombella Rossa, and Fernando León de Aranoa – Mondays in the Sun.

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