Sombre
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Time Out says
A distinctly arty variation on the serial killer genre, with sparse dialogue, lingering shots of landscape and sexual/murderous encounters, and an elliptical, impressionistic narrative in which solitary, joyless killer Barbé simply travels around France from (uncharacterised) victim to victim until he slips into a strange, fragile, clearly perilous relationship with the haunted, seemingly virginal Löwensohn and her flightier sister. Certainly the film mostly avoids thriller clichés, but for all its evident seriousness of purpose, there's far too much picturesque but uninformative out-of-focus imagery, often on the brink of abstraction, for it to be particularly enlightening about murderers or their victims. That said, Barbé is convincing, and Löwensohn, playing far from Hartley, is extraordinary.Author: GA
Release details
UK release:
1998
Duration:
112 mins
Cast and crew
Cast:
Geraldine Voillat, Marc Barbé, Elina Löwensohn
Cinematography:
Sabine Lancelin, Philippe Grandrieux
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Director:
Editor:
Music:
Screenwriter:
Pierre Hodgson, Philippe Grandrieux, Sophie Fillières
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