The Vanishing
(1988)
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The Vanishing
(1988)
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Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu | ... | |
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Gene Bervoets | ... | |
| Johanna ter Steege | ... | ||
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Gwen Eckhaus | ... | |
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Bernadette Le Saché | ... | |
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Tania Latarjet | ... | |
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Lucille Glenn | ... |
Gabrielle
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Roger Souza | ... |
Manager
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Caroline Appéré | ... |
Cashier
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Pierre Forget | ... | |
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Didier Rousset | ... | |
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Raphaëline Goupilleau | ... |
Gisele Marzin
(as Raphaëline)
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Robert Lucibello | ... |
Teacher
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David Bayle | ... |
Lemorne (16 Years)
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Doumee | ... |
Lady 'Prisunic'
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Rex and Saskia are on holiday, a young couple in love. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia disappears. Rex dedicates the next three years trying to find her. Then he receives some postcards from her abductor, who promises to reveal what has happened to Saskia. The abductor, Raymond Lemorne, is a chilling character to whom Rex is drawn by his intense desire to learn the truth behind his lovers disappearance. The truth is more sinister than he dared imagine. Written by Matthew Stanfield <mattst@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
George Sluizer has made a movie that moves slowly forward, giving the viewer clues that work as pointers to take us back and forth in time. Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu as Raymond Lemorne depicts a man who knows the difference between right and wrong, but when he is 16, looking down from his parents veranda 15 feet above ground, he asks himself this question: Where is it predestined that I will not jump? And then he has to jump. This highly disturbing way of thinking moves him in a different direction. We see in his every day life that he is a most normal man, he has two daughters, a good wife, a job as a chemistry teacher. But he is something else too. Is he evil? This is a very disturbing movie.