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Captive (The)

Country: France, Language: French, 118 mins

Original Title

La Captive
  • Director: Chantal Akerman
  • Writer: Chantal Akerman; Eric De Kuyper
  • Producer: Paulo Branco

CGiii Comment

A lousy way to start a film...
 
Magnificently subtle...magnificently boring.

An adaptation of Proust's 'La Prisoniere' - best to read the book...this is too simple an approach for the complexity therein...


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The(ir) Blurb...

An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.

Cast & Characters

Stanislas Merhar as Simon;
Sylvie Testud as Ariane;
Olivia Bonamy as Andree;
Liliane Rovere as Françoise, the maid;
Françoise Bertin as The grandmother;
Aurore Clement as Lea, the actress;
Vanessa Larre as Helene;
Samuel Tasinaje as Levy;
Jean Borodine as The chauffeur;
Anna Mouglalis as Isabelle;
Berenice Bejo as Sarah;
Adeline Chaudron as Prostitute;
Sophie Assante as The singing woman;
Christopher Gendreau as Bellboy;
Sebastien Haddouk as Painter