| Product Summary | | Publisher: Winstar | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00720917530628 | | Buy.com Sku: 40159979 | | Item#: VK46K2 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 23728 | | Category Keywords: France Theatrical Release | | Rating: NR |
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| | | Can love vanish without a trace?
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Hi-fi Stereo, English, Subtitled
Named one of People Magazine's Most Beautiful People, Charlotte Rampling (The Night Porter, The Verdict) gives one of her most acclaimed performances in Francois Ozon's (Criminal Lovers, Water Drops On Burning Rocks) mesmerizing tale of loss and grief, Under The Sand. For many years, Marie (Rampling) and Jean (Bruno Cremer) have happily spent their vacations together at their country house. One day at the beach Marie naps in the sand while Jean goes for a swim. When she awakens, he is gone. Did he drown? Did he run off? Distraught, Marie notifies the authorities but after an extensive search, no body is found. Tenaciously and disquietingly, Marie keeps the memory of her husband alive, often speaking of whims if he never disappeared. She strikes up a tentative relationship with Vincent (Jacques Nolot), but is unable to make any real commitment. Ultimately she must grapple with her life alone while coping with her erotic stirrings and fantasy life.
"...mesmerizing and unforgettable. Heart-wrenchingly realistic" Loren King, Boston Globe
"A movie of introspection and defiance." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"One of the most involving psychological mysteries in recent memory." Desson Owe, Washington Post
"Heartrending! Emotionally powerful" People Magazine
"[Rampling is] an exotic creature...a magnificient coolly alluring siren." Lisa Sxhwartzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Editor's Note
Francois Ozon's haunting UNDER THE SAND stars the remarkable British actress Charlotte Rampling, who plays Marie Drillon: a strong, attractive, professional, independent middle-aged woman trying to get her life back on track after the sudden disappearance of her husband. Even for a superwoman like Marie, the shock of the tragedy is psychologically traumatizing. Marie isn't sure what happened to her husband (Is he dead? Did he run off with someone else?) and she's in denial about him being gone. At Parisian dinner parties with her supportive, careful friends, Marie still talks about her husband in the present tense. At home, she still imagines that he is with her; she pours two cups of tea in the morning and she reminds him to set the alarm clock before going to sleep at night. At the university where she teaches English, she reads to her students from the melancholy book THE WAVES by Virginia Woolf. Through all of this, Ozon's camera caresses Marie and encourages her, always casting her in cold, confident light. Using film language such as the repeated double reflection of Marie's face in the mirror, audiences come to understand Marie's innermost thoughts and feelings. She is a woman confronting herself (her identity, her age, her body, her sexuality, her emotions, her intellect) with brutal honesty. UNDER THE SAND is beautiful, sad, languorous film that includes some unforgettable images of the rolling ocean waves near Marie's beach house in Landes, France.
| Features | Filmographies | | Scene Access | | Interactive Menus | | Interview With Charlotte Rampling | | Commentary By Director Francois Ozon | | Theatrical Trailer | | Widescreen Version Enhanced For 16x9 TVs | | Audio: English & French Dolby Digital Stereo | | Subtitles: English, Spanish |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Winstar |
| Release Date: 6/5/2007 |
| Running Time: 95 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 5306 | | UPC: 00720917530628 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: French | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.77:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Sight and Sound
"...Like the beauty of its star Charlotte Rampling, UNDER THE SAND is stylish and slightly haunted..." 04/01/2001 p.59New York Times
"...[Ozon] has an uncanny ability to convey physical sensation on film....[Rampling's] whose performance is like a perfectly executed piano etude..." 05/04/2001 p.E14 Entertainment Weekly
"...[Rampling] acts with a peppery restraint that suggests female wisdom, her sinewy grace intensified by the comforting solidity of Cremer's easy girth..." 05/11/2001 p.51 Total Film
"...A beautifully controlled portrait of the pain of bereavement....Rampling herself provides a superbly understated, expressive performance..." 05/01/2001 p.101 Box Office
"...Ozon's film crackles with sound....Rampling carries UNDER THE SAND with her assured turn..." 05/01/2001 p.57 Rolling Stone
"...A delicate and devastating film....[It] features one of the best performances of the year....It's a role of fierce demands, and Rampling meets them all..." 06/21/2001 p.82 Los Angeles Times
"...[A] fine, provocative film....Ozon reveals fragility and vulnerability underlying seemingly secure and solid bourgeois appearances..." 05/18/2001 p.6 Chicago Bulletin
"...UNDER THE SAND is a movie of introspection and defiance....We are surprised how much we are touched..." 07/10/2001 p.30 Los Angeles Times 8 of 10
...Under the Sand becomes a portrait in denial, affording Rampling...a role rich in challenges. ...All the while, Ozon has been imperceptibly building to a climax that assumes dimensions impossible to predict. ...Under the Sand requires careful attention at its abrupt finish. Close concentration on the final shots yields a meaning not possible should a viewer's attention wander or turn away a few moments too soon. - Kevin Thomas
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