- Format: NTSC
- Language: English, French
- Subtitles: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Studio: Paradox
- Release Date: Aug 12 2003
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000069HV1
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #28,437 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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François Ozon's Under the Sand revolves around a tender, frightening contrast not easily forgotten: the dead live on only as long as we remember them. Marie (a luminous Charlotte Rampling) and Jean (Bruno Cremer), a middle-aged couple, are on vacation. As they ready the beach house almost wordlessly, a long-standing, intense love is immediately understood. While Marie naps on the shore, Jean goes off for a swim from which he never returns. Six months later, back in her empty Paris apartment, Marie goes about her life as if Jean is still there with her, reading in bed, massaging her feet, sitting at the breakfast table. At dinner parties and lunch dates, her close friends are visibly appalled her behavior. It becomes clear that Marie's place in society is increasingly precarious with a ghost at her side: her husband's bank accounts remain frozen because no body has been identified, her lectures at the university end abruptly in silence, her untimely laughter frightens a new lover. Ozon does not manipulate the viewer with surprise endings or try to charm with gags. Instead, we are intimately drawn into Marie's refusal to let go and her awful panic as Jean begins to fade. --Fionn Meade
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Mieux connu pour les univers malsains de ses premiers films, Sitcom et Gouttes d’eau sur pierres brûlantes, François Ozon surprend avec Sous le sable, une réalisation plus intime où il offre à Charlotte Rampling l’occasion de prouver à nouveau ses talents d’actrice.
Marie (Rampling) et Jean (Bruno Cremer), la cinquantaine, semblent correspondre à l’archétype du couple bourgeois sans histoire. Un jour, cependant, Jean disparaît lors d’une baignade dans les Landes. Niant d’abord son absence avec légèreté, Marie finit par refuser toutes les hypothèses, du suicide à la noyade. Elle le veut encore vivant et ira jusqu’à halluciner l’intimité envolée. Enveloppée dans la musique de Portishead, l’atmosphère n’en devient que plus introspective.
Sophistiqué et audacieux dans ses choix d’angles, de lumière et de cadrages, François Ozon réalise un film qui témoigne d’une grande maturité – un peu comme un enfant trop bien élevé pour bâcler son travail, qui ne peut pourtant s’empêcher de diriger sa caméra du côté où ça fait mal. C’est avec poésie et raffinement, mais sans détour, qu’il nous confronte au refus d’une femme de faire son deuil. Sous le sable est une oeuvre captivante, sensuelle et intelligente, qui hypnotise par son emploi de l’ellipse et sa langueur contemplative. --Helen Faradji
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Beautifully filmed, Interesting,
By Musicfan (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Under the Sand (Widescreen) (DVD)
This is definitely a beautiful, well-filmed movie. The story stays a bit of a mystery throughout. Ms. Rampling is quite good. When I looked at her career and the movies in her filmography, I was surprised to see that such a fine actress really hasn't been in that many good movies. Not a young woman anymore, Ms Rampling is still very alluring. This film has a few erotic moments, but not to the degree that some reviewers are stating. If you like a thought-provoking type of character study and a beautiful loking film this could be a good one for you.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Best Film of 2001,
By A Customer
This review is from: Under the Sand (Widescreen) (DVD)
Under the Sand may be the most astoundingly beautiful film all year, not to mention one of the most heartbreaking portraits of grief on the screen since The Sweet Hereafter. It's sober, solemn, and somehow liberating--I feel more human now that it's over, and seeing it has become a pleasurable thing to look back on. The film, about a woman in her fifties (Charlotte Rampling) whose husband disappears on the beach and is never seen again, is a fascinating examination of loss and a profoundly moving film about love. It is fiercely unsentimental, almost bitterly angry at times, in the way that we curse those we love who have left us without warning. The brilliant final shots, which do absolutely nothing to explain what really happened to the husband, or what will happen to the wife, make exactly the right ending. Rampling is the most perfect thing about the film--never before has her total prescence been so apparent on the screen, and the effect is astonishing. Time has only worked to ripen her unusual, angular radiance; she's luminous and sensual in every act we watch her perform. The film's images, each so clean and smooth, unable to contain their own natural brilliance, are sheer poetry: fingers, clutching sand; the way that light and water can distort the human figure; the buttering of a piece of toast; finally, the canvas of the human body and the beauty of its conjunction with another in an act of love. Under the Sand is a reminder of what love and loss really are--you can see them in nearly every shot of Charlotte Rampling's unforgettable, candid face.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Truly amazing...,
By A Customer
This review is from: Under the Sand (Widescreen) (DVD)
Superb acting. Charlotte Rampling is amazing as always. Very realistic portraying of people unable to accept reality of the loss... Emotional and realistic, this movie will make you think about it for days after.
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