Sous le sable

• Charlotte Rampling: Marie Drillon
• Bruno Crémer: Jean Drillon
• Jacques Nolot: Vincent
• Alexandra Stewart: Armanda
• Pierre Vernier: Gérard
• Andrée Tainsy: Suzanne

Under the Sand is a French film directed by François Ozon from the year 2000.

Action

Like every year, Marie and Jean spend their holidays on the coast. Suddenly Jean has disappeared on the beach, immediately initiated search is fruitless. Marie clings to the idea that Jean is still alive.

In Paris, return to regular life of Marie in her profession as a teacher. Marie's best friend makes them known with a new man: the publisher Vincent. Although she gets involved in a relationship with him, she can not come to terms with death, jeans. When the police logs with her, because you have found a body, it does not respond. By chance, she is confronted with the fact that Jean was severely depressed and has taken medication. His mother opened her out its view that bored with his life and his marriage Jean used this way to start his life over again. Only now, Marie, to go to the place of disappearance decides. And though the body was now clearly identified as her husband, a detail there was the watch exactly as described by Marie, she now claims against the police that the body is not her husband and the clock shown is not her husband. So they can get their illusion.

Background

Under the sand was François Ozon's first part of a " trilogy about the sorrow "; the second part was published in 2005 under the title The time remains. By returning to the sea in 2009 was followed by the last part.

Criticism

" The film lives of its magnificent actress, but also on the precision and intimacy with which he accompanies almost documentary. "