How Does Grief Affect Us? (Under The Sand, 2000)Full review >>
How do we process personal tragedies? How does our mind cope with them? And how do we recover our balance in life?
These are some of the serious questions addressed in the 2000 French drama Under the Sand. Written and directed by François Ozon, the film stars Charlotte Rampling and Bruno Cremer (the French title is Sous le Sable).
Charlotte Rampling has carved out a niche for herself in French films, taking advantage of her perfect fluency in the language and her willingness to take on serious dramatic roles. I greatly admired her 2005 film Heading South, an under-appreciated study of female sexual tourism.
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Proper Review
Oct 10th 2015