La captive
Difficult, difficult to understand... unless you like Proust.
Chantal Akerman
Filmography
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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...Watch Movie
Genres
- Adaptation / Literary / Prose
- Drama / Melodrama
- Drama / Romantic Drama
- International / European / French
Recent Reviews
La captive
The most fascinating part of this film to me was the use of language. Spoiler alert: the use of the the formal and familiar tenses at inverse segments of the...
La captive
Chantal Akerman's minimal adaptation of Proust works, but just barely. Stanislas Merhar deserves much of the credit for the film's success. It is an interesting film about obsession that runs...
La captive
Hitchcockian studies of dark obsession melded with Proust's introspective melodrama and study of identity as funneled through Akerman's distinctive style make for a deceptively simple film that contains deep thematic...
La captive
Subversive in its form, but of course that makes it hard to watch. Patient film.