La captive
2000
Film, 01:58:00.
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With La Captive, inspired by La Prisonnière (the fifth and final volume of A la recherche du temps perdu), Akerman has made an original adaptation of Proust. In a once chic Paris apartment (whose corridors and corners are scanned by the camera in search of secrets, à la Resnais), Simon, a wealthy young man, lives with his grandmother and his lover, Ariane, isolated from the outside world due to his allergies, writer's cramp, and distracting obsessions. Accompanied by a friend, Ariane goes to a Ladies Club, where it is clear that she values the company more. And yet she keeps returning to Simon's chaste love and his jealous but also funny, voyeuristic desire to know her... With this abundant film, full of hilariously absurd details and references to Vertigo, Akerman once again proves her talent for subjects like the destructiveness of love and the complex nature of sexuality.