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Under the Sand (DVD, 2001)

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Francois Ozon's haunting UNDER THE SAND stars the remarkable British actress Charlotte Rampling, who plays Marie Drillon: a strong, attractive, professional, independent middle-aged woman trying to get her life back on track after the sudden disappearance of her husband. Even for a superwoman like Marie, the shock of the tragedy is psychologically traumatizing. Marie isn't sure what happened to her husband (Is he dead? Did he run off with someone else?) and she's in denial about him being gone. At Parisian dinner parties with her supportive, careful friends, Marie still talks about her husband in the present tense. At home, she still imagines that he is with her; she pours two cups of tea in the morning and she reminds him to set the alarm clock before going to sleep at night. At the university where she teaches English, she reads to her students from the melancholy book THE WAVES by Virginia Woolf. Through all of this, Ozon's camera caresses Marie and encourages her, always casting her in cold, confident light. Using film language such as the repeated double reflection of Marie's face in the mirror, audiences come to understand Marie's innermost thoughts and feelings. She is a woman confronting herself (her identity, her age, her body, her sexuality, her emotions, her intellect) with brutal honesty. UNDER THE SAND is beautiful, sad, languorous film that includes some unforgettable images of the rolling ocean waves near Marie's beach house in Landes, France.

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UPC0720917530628

eBay Product ID (ePID)3362451

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ActorCharlotte Rampling

RatingNR

Movie/TV TitleUnder the Sand

DirectorFrancois Ozon

FormatDVD

Release Year2001

GenreForeign Language

Sub-GenreFrench

Additional Product Features

Region CodeRegion0

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureFrance

Leading RoleCharlotte Rampling

Release Date20011113

Film CountryFrance

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by neoclassicism1
19 Jan, 2016
Superb film
Francois Ozon is a gifted film-maker, story-teller ("Dans la Maison" and "Swimming Pool" are other examples of his very fine, nuanced work), and Charlotte Rampling is one of the great screen actresses of our time, underrated though she may be or at least relatively unknown to American audiences. To watch again and again.
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by rober12345
30 Mar, 2021
Under the Sand
Excellent film
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