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Under the Sand (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 6 Fresh: 4  Rotten:2 Average Rating: 6.3/10
 
Consensus: Rampling carries the film with her finely nuanced performance of a woman coping with her husband's death.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot, Alexandra Stewart, Pierre Vernier

Director: Francois Ozon
Screenwriter: Marina De Van, Marcia Romano, Emmanuelle Bernheim, Francois Ozon
Composer: Philippe Rombi

DVD Info

Release:

Jan 11, 2002

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 0
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85:1

Audio:

  • Stereo - English/French
  • Subtitles - English - Optional
  • Subtitles - Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Production Interview - 1. Charlotte Rampling - Star
  • Audio Commentary - 1. Francois Ozon - Director
  • Trailers

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  • Scene Access
  • Interactive Menus

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DmanLanger 07/15/08
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Majdy 01/15/08
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A movie that really need a great character actress so it can works, and Rampling does it in making this one of the saddest story on movies.
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CVClaux 07/02/07
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manon_lek 05/07/07
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roguebooks 07/14/06
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I felt tricked and used by the director of this film. Led on, and made to feel as if something other than the obvious was... More
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BigFlax 10/12/04
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http://efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=5301&reviewer=385 There it is, the first in what will hopefully be a... More
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