The Captive

Chantal Akerman's film adaptation of Proust's 'On the Trail of Lost Time' is all her own. The upper-class couples, costumes and mild jokes from the novel are cleared out of the way in favour of a barren, more alienating Paris anno 2000. It's the story of young writer Simon and his all-consuming lust for the enigmatic, beautiful Ariane. A fiction about the captivating power of the gaze, voyeurism and desire.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Starring: Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Liliane Rovère
Country/year: France, Belgium, 2000
Running time: 118 min.
Formato: DCP
Language: English subtitles
Age limit: Allowed for children over 15
Original title: La captive

Part of the series: Chantal Akerman's fictions
Chantal Akerman was one of the most form-conscious and innovative filmmakers of her generation. Her fiction films range from melodrama and musical to romantic comedy and radically concentrated chamber plays and testify to an incredible curiosity to explore the possibilities of fiction.