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Under the Sand
I
saw an excellent film last night - Francois Ozon's Under the Sand
(2000).
The
film opens with Marie and her husband of some 25 years taking a trip to their
beachside home. In the morning they
travel to the beach together, and making mention of taking a swim, Marie's
husband leaves her lying in the sun reading her book.
Sometime
later Marie turns her attention back to the sea, only to find that her husband
is gone, feared drowned, but the subsequent search does not reveal a body.
Marie
soon returns to her everyday life, striving to convince herself that nothing
has happened, and indeed imagining that her husband is still by her side.
And
what a fine study of grief this film is - fully measured and powerfully
delivered by Charlotte Rampling as Marie.
In Under the Sand Ozon really delivers the film that Kieslowski's Three
Colours Blue could only dream of being - anyone who has enjoyed any of Ozon's
other films should more than enjoy this film.
The Sacrifice
What would you do if world events unfolded such that you knew that certain death was not only soon to befall you but also your country, all those you loved, and most heart breakingly, your one and only young son? In your darkest hour, would you seek to enter into a desperate deal with God? And say he came through, would you be able to keep up your end of the bargain?
These
are the dark questions that Andrei Tarkovsky's achingly beautiful film, The
Sacrifice (1986), confronts as protagonist, Alexander, and his family lie
in wait for an almost certain nuclear holocaust.
The Sacrifice is yet another otherworldly study in slowness from the great Russian filmmaker, Andrei Tarkovsky, and is a film not to be missed.
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