The Captive La Captive

Chantal Akerman / France, Belgium / 2000 / 117 min / French

Chantal Akerman (renowned for the avant-garde classic Jeanne Dielman) adapted Marcel Proust’s fifth book from the In Search of Lost Time cycle into a film that tells the story of a man consumed by obsessive love, whose longing for an impossible perfect union ultimately leads to his downfall.

cast Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Aurore Clément

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