2000 · drama · grief · art house
Under the Sand
Directed by François Ozon1h 36m2000
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
Our read: Under the Sand (2000) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · grief · art house entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / grief, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intimate
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