SOMBRE
France

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     An enigmatic and hypnotic story that resorts to repetition to describe the wayward path of a brutal serial killer of women. Jean travels throughout France carrying as baggage only his marionettes and a fancy-dress as a wolf. He rapes the women he meets and then abandons the lifeless body in a hotel room, in the woods, or on the banks of a river. He is awkward, can barely talk, and is rejected by society.

     One day, he meets Claire, a young girl with a car that has broken down on the edge of the road. They eventually fall in love and find as it were, an echo to their problems in one another. She is a virgin, she is awkward, and can not break down the barriers to live outside her own world.

     A fable of horror that avoids the psychological terrain to better capture the visual, sound, and physical sensations of his character. From this viewpoint, the film explores the use of a shoulder camera, scant illumination, texturized image, and disconnected speech, generating a complex of lights that preserves the irreducible mystery of the protagonists and of the love that binds them.

   
Director : Philippe Grandrieux
Screenplay : Philippe Grandrieux, Pierre Hodgson, Sophie Fillières
Cinematographer: Sabine Lancelin
Edition : Françoise Tourmen
Cast : Elina Löwensohn, Marc Barbé, Géraldine Voillat
Producer : Catherine Jacques
Production : Zelie Production 10bis, rue de la Montagne, F-77760 Burcy, France
Tel: 33 1 485 10310
Fax: 33 1 558 62123
World Sales : Celluloid Dreams - 24, rue Lamartine, F-75009 Paris, France Tel: 33 1 497 00370
Fax: 33 1 497 00371
  Col., 112 min., 1998
 

 

Born in 1954, in Saint-Etienne, France, he produced his first video-installation, Via La Video, in 1976 in Brussels, as media that would cause an impact on the eighties. As from then, he divides his time between experimental work, documentaries, and production for the Arte cultural channel. He made important documentaries, amongst which L'Industrie du Rêve, on Brazil, and Retour à Sarajevo, on a girl who returns to Bosnia after years in exile. Sombre is his first fiction feature.