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Sous le sable
FRANCE · 2000

Sous le sable

François Ozon
grief and loss psychological denial marital relationships mental deterioration disappearance
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Synopsis

When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.

Cinema Atlas Connection
I watched Ingmar Bergman's *Scenes from a Marriage* again. And *Winter Light*. What interested me was the portrait of a woman who goes into denial after the disappearance of her husband, and how she tries to rebuild her life, or rather, how she is unable.
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