2003 · romance · ghost · drama
The Story of Marie and Julien
Directed by Jacques Rivette2h 30m2003
Julien is a clockmaker with destructive impulses who decides to blackmail Madame X, a rich, attractive woman who traffics in stolen antiques. What he doesn’t know is that she has an even more dangerous secret that leads him to Marie, with whom he had fallen in love a year earlier.
Our read: The Story of Marie and Julien (2003) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive romance · ghost · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured romance / ghost, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
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