La captive
I like Proust and slow arty movies, but found this one frustrating. So often things just didn't make much sense to me, were unexplained, inconsistent. I liked the grandmother and...
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Chantal Akerman
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La captive
Chantal Akerman’s insinuating chamber drama distills the romantic pathologies of suspicion and control with remarkable precision. Based on the fifth volume Proust’s IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, LA CAPTIVE treats the novel’s fetishized structures of detail and time as symptoms of a slow spreading sickness. The film opens with Simon...Start your free trial to watch
Genres
- International / European / French
- Drama / Melodrama
- Adaptation / Literary / Prose
- Drama / Romantic Drama