| Sous le sable | |
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| Directed by | François Ozon |
| Produced by | Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier |
| Written by | François Ozon, Emmanuèle Bernheim |
| Starring | Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer |
| Music by | Philippe Rombi |
| Cinematography | Antoine Héberlé, Jeanne Lapoirie |
| Editing by | Laurence Bawedin |
| Release date(s) | 2001 |
| Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Sous le sable (pronounced: [su lə sɑbl], in English: Under the Sand) is a 2000 French drama film directed and written by François Ozon. The film was nominated for 8 awards and was critically well received. It stars Charlotte Rampling and Bruno Cremer.
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Marie, happily married to Jean for 25 years, is a lecturer in English literature at a Paris university. During their summer vacation in the southwest of France, Jean goes to swim in the sea while his wife is sunbathing and never returns, vanishing without trace. No body is found and several questions arise. Has he left her, committed suicide, drowned? With no body to mourn, she pretends that he is still alive and present in their apartment. Her life becomes characterized by denial, cloaked in enigmatic complexity and emotional disorientation.
The film was shot in Paris and in the Landes department including Lit-et-Mixe, Mimizan-Plage beach and at Saint-Julien-en-Born.
Sous le sable was nominated for Best Film at the César Awards 2002.
The plot of Sous le Sable bears some resemblance to that of the 1990 British romantic comedy Truly, Madly, Deeply, although whether this is deliberate is doubtful; the latter is a romantic comedy, whereas Sous le Sable is a melancholy drama.
The Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman admired Sous le sable deeply, claiming to have watched the film several times.[1]
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