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STAGES OF GRIEF

Today's François Ozon film was

Sous le sable / Under the Sand (2001)

with Charlotte Rampling as a wife, Marie, who went to the beach with her husband one morning when he disappeared. While swimming. Maybe.

This is a simple premise. No body is found so Marie goes home and tries to resume her life, grappling, in the meantime, with the process of grieving and coming to grips with the good probability that her husband is dead and gone.

And that is the movie.

We watch, we feel, we empathize. In Ozon's skill as a director and Rampling's ability to convey all the stages of grief we know about, and some that are new, we have an unmatched experience.

There is no melodrama here. No spilled blood. There is some frank talk and some rough times particularly when Marie must talk to her husband's mother. They are still at war.

This is a great film and it got a great reception.

It is worth seeing twice and more. I already saw it before and had "forgotten" its depth and reach.

A 5 out of Netflix5.

Labels: films