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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 3357803070387
Format: Anamorphic, Full Screen, NTSC
Region Code: 2
Theatrical Release Date: May 04, 2001
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
François Ozon's Under the Sand revolves around a tender, frightening contrast not easily forgotten: the dead live on only as long as we remember them. Marie (a luminous Charlotte Rampling) and Jean (Bruno Cremer), a middle-aged couple, are on vacation. As they ready the beach house almost wordlessly, a long-standing, intense love is immediately understood. While Marie naps on the shore, Jean goes off for a swim from which he never returns. Six months later, back in her empty Paris apartment, Marie goes about her life as if Jean is still there with her, reading in bed, massaging her feet, sitting at the breakfast table. At dinner parties and lunch dates, her close friends are visibly appalled her behavior. It becomes clear that Marie's place in society is increasingly precarious with a ghost at her side: her husband's bank accounts remain frozen because no body has been identified, her lectures at the university end abruptly in silence, her untimely laughter frightens a new lover. Ozon does not manipulate the viewer with surprise endings or try to charm with gags. Instead, we are intimately drawn into Marie's refusal to let go and her awful panic as Jean begins to fade. --Fionn Meade
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - One of Ozon's true masterpieces!
The director once again dives into human's soul. And the result is an extraordinary portrait of grief, that hounts you for days after you've watched the movie...
And you MUST see Ozon's Time to leave (the next chapter in his death-themed trilogy)!
Rating: - Superb Storytelling
Although it may seem there is a whole lot of nothing much going on in this film, what little that is going on says volumes about life for all of us. The acting is the finest I have ever seen in a long time on film; the cinematography is skillfully and artistically executed, propelling the ambiences, thoughts, and feelings of the various characters. The audience gets a real sense of the characters, as some of them struggle to accept reality, others being supportive and understanding while some are ... Read More
Rating:  - A good film
I could see why many consider this to be one of Francois Ozon's best films.
It is good. You just have to be in the right frame of mine to appreciate it. Charlotte Rampling does a good job interpreting the lead character and the settings are wonderfully shot.
It is a film about loss and how at times we cope with it unrealistically. It's a REAL kind of film.
Rating: - Life, Death, Grieving, Loss and Coping
François Ozon is a rare director, one who takes a simple story, places it in the eyes and bodies of his cast, and simply lets the tale tell itself. SOUS LE SABLE (UNDER THE SAND) is an unforgettable film experience that probes deeply into our psyches, hearts, and reason: how do we cope with sudden death?
Opening quietly in the French countryside, a loving middle-aged couple begins a brief vacation in a family house, quietly and lovingly going about removing dustcovers, opening shuttered ... Read More
Rating:  - very stagnant
I like Francois Ozon's Swimming Pool a lot. I think he has caught a very exceptional line in that movie. But Under the Sand is a very typical French movie which makes most people don't want to watch one as soon as they hear it is a French movie. I finally persuaded my husband that Francois Ozon is different and this movie will be good, it turned out to be a nightmare, pointlessly soul strangeling movie. I would not recommend unless you are a big fun of Ozon or this type of movies.
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