
An Anatomy of Melancholy (2000)
TMDb
6.5
24/04/2000 • 0h 13m
original-title
An Anatomy of Melancholy
status
Released
production-companies
Finetake Productions
original-language
English
budget
-
revenue
-
"An Anatomy of Melancholy" is a cinematic meditation on mortality which takes the form of a special anatomy book - one in the process of being made. As hand-drawn illustrations appear slowly and painfully on the pages of the book, showing us parts of a dissected human body, we witness both the act of creation and a testament to our own passing. Accompanying the simple but powerful images of the human body, we hear the words of Keats' Ode on Melancholy: "Ay, in the very temple of Delight. Veiled Melancholy has her sovran shrine..."
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