CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 2000
The Captive posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE2000 1h 58m FRA

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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The Captive

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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME

Keep the feeling.

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Its immaculate spaces, uncertain memories and ritualised encounters create the same cool, hypnotic sense of desire becoming a maze.

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Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles

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Akerman’s exacting attention to routine, enclosed space and barely expressed feeling makes this a deeper companion to The Captive’s controlled emotional distance.

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Why this pick

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Why this pick

Its sunlit isolation, shifting perspective and quietly erotic tension sustain an elegant mystery around desire and projection.

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Why this pick

Glazer gives obsessive longing a glacial, uncanny form, using polished interiors and silences to keep certainty just out of reach.

CURATING YOUR NEXT FRAME

Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Sylvie Testud

Sylvie Testud

Ariane

Olivia Bonamy

Olivia Bonamy

Andrée

Bérénice Bejo

Bérénice Bejo

Sarah

Stanislas Merhar

Stanislas Merhar

Simon

Liliane Rovère

Liliane Rovère

Françoise, the maid

Anna Mouglalis

Isabelle