Author: Charlotte Rampling

Format: NTSC

Details: Product Description Every summer, Jean and Marie go on vacation to the Landes. But this year, while Marie is sleeping on the beach, Jean disappears. Did he drown? Did he run away? Marie finds herself alone with the enigma of the disappearance of the man in her life... Amazon.ca Best known for the unhealthy universes of his early films, sitcoms and Drops of water on hot stones, François Ozon surprises with Under the sand, a more intimate achievement where he offers Charlotte Rampling the opportunity to prove her acting skills again. Marie (Rampling) and Jean (Bruno Cremer), in their fifties, seem to correspond to the archetype of the bourgeois couple without history. One day, however, Jean disappears while swimming in the Landes. At first lightly denying her absence, Marie ends up refusing all hypotheses, from suicide to drowning. She wants him still alive and will go so far as to hallucinate his vanished intimacy. Wrapped in Portishead's music, the atmosphere only becomes more introspective. Sophisticated and daring in his choices of angles, light and framing, François Ozon directs a film that bears witness to great maturity – a bit like a child too well brought up to rush his work, who nevertheless cannot help aim his camera at the side where it hurts. It is with poetry and refinement, but without detour, that he confronts us with the refusal of a woman to mourn. Sous le sable is a captivating, sensual and intelligent work, which hypnotizes with its use of the ellipse and its contemplative languor. --Helen Faradji

UPC: 773933169525

EAN: 0773933169525

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood