The Hours et sa perspective de l’autre: une rencontre entre cinéma, litérature et philosophie
The Hours and the perspective of the other: the crossroads of cinema, literature and philosophy

Summary/Abstract: A film about three women, from three generations, in different places. They are all connected by the Virginia Woolf’s novel. This one is being written by her. Laura Brown reads it and lives it. So does Clarissa. There’s a fourth character. It’s a poet, sick of AIDS, homosexual, making part of that group of characters who look like themselves, one like each other, looking like the same, identical, in almost identical situations, in times which we shall understand as different, but on realise them as being simultaneous. I propose thinking the movement of this film under the perspective of the other, by a dialogue with Zizek and Levinas, passing through Tassin, the novel which inspired the film, by Michael Cunningham, as through Mrs. Dalloway. The questions which guide this reflection are: who is the other in this film? And what’s proposed to this person? What does the other says about myself?

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