IMDb > Sombre (1998)

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6.5/10   358 votes
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27 January 1999 (France) more
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A car, following the Tour de France. Children screaming in front of the puppet show. Women, often prostitutes... more | add synopsis
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1 win & 1 nomination more
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This is definitely not a film more (10 total)

Cast

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Marc Barbé ... Jean
Elina Löwensohn ... Claire
Géraldine Voillat ... Christine
Coralie ... La première femme
Maxime Mazzolini ... L'enfant aux yeux bandés
Alexandra Noël ... La seconde femme
Annick Lemonnier ... La troisième femme
Sadija Sada Sarcevic ... La mère de Claire
Lea Civello ... Fille de la boîte de nuit 1
Astrid Combes ... Fille de la boîte de nuit 2
Sylvie Granato ... La quatrième femme
Tony Baillargeat ... Homme du bal 2
Marc Berman ... Homme du bal 1
Martine Vandeville ... La femme du HLM
Antoine Debilly ... L'enfant du HLM
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112 min
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This is definitely not a film, 23 February 1999
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Author: Gregoire Dubost (gdubost@poly.polytechnique.fr) from Palaiseau, France

in the usual sense of the term. This is a show for your senses : view of course, but also hear (the music of Alan Vega), smell or touch. The characters are filmed so close you can actually feel them in their gestures, you feel the love, you smell the fear. The picture is very dark, often fuzzy, never stable. It keeps on jumping from the lights of the car, to childrens' screams, to womens' hips and hands on their throats. The film has raised a critical debate, some defining it as immoral and almost pornographic, the others considering it a pure chef-d'oeuvre. To my mind, it is both, and more than that. A real experience of cinema.

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