Under the Sand ( Sous le sable ) ( Maboroshi )

Under the Sand (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Sous le sable
Alternate Title: Maboroshi
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Ceasar Awards
European Film Awards
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
François Ozon

Written By:
François Ozon
Emmanuèle Bernheim

Actors:
Charlotte Rampling ..... Marie Drillon
Bruno Cremer ..... Jean Drillon
Jacques Nolot ..... Vincent
Alexandra Stewart ..... Amanda
Pierre Vernier ..... Gérard
Andrée Tainsy ..... Suzanne
Maya Gaugler ..... German woman
Damien Abbou ..... Chief lifeguard
David Portugais ..... Young lifeguard
Pierre Soubestre ..... Policeman
Agathe Teyssier ..... In charge of luxury store
Laurence Martin ..... Apartment seller
Jean-François Lapalus ..... Paris doctor
Laurence Mercier ..... Paris doctor's secretary
Fabienne Luchetti ..... Pharmacist

Synopsis:

In a film radically removed from his past works, Franois Ozon again proves that he is one of the brightest lights of recent French cinema. Marie (Charlotte Rampling) and Jean (Bruno Cremer) are living out their middle age, comfortable and satisfied. During a holiday at their summer house, Jean goes for a swim in the ocean, from which he never returns. As the months go by and in spite of her apparent bravery Marie, ever more reclusive, refuses to accept that Jean is gone forever. Only when wooed by a charming publisher does she allow herself to rediscover her emotions, her sexuality and herself, while remaining convinced that Jean is alive. Under The Sand is a wonderful cinematic experience, the youthful exuberance of Ozon's earlier work here replaced by a wistful maturity: profound, subtle and evoking a deep sense of pain.

Marie, a professor of English literature in a Paris university, has been happily married to Jean for 25 years, although they have no children. During their summer vacations in the southwest of France, Jean leaves Marie sunbathing on the beach and goes to swim in the sea. When Marie turns back, she cannot find Jean. Has he left her? commited suicide? drowned? With no clue and no body to mourn over, Marie acts as her husband was still alive.

When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 13 April, 2013.