La Captive (The Captive)
‘That’s a story for me,’ said Akerman of Marcel Proust’s The Prisoner, when she remembered ‘there was that apartment, and the corridor, and the two characters’. This languorous, beguiling adaptation – where, again, Akerman resets our sense of time – probes possessive love. A wealthy young man obsesses over his girlfriend. But who is the captor? Akerman considered a person could be a cage as much as a room.
French with English subtitles.
Screening as part of our CineMasters: Chantal Akerman season, in partnership with BFI. Thanks to BFI for the film synopsis.DramaPT1H58M152025-04-19Sylvie Testud
Stanislas Merhar
Olivia Bonamy
Bérénice Bejo
Anna Mouglalis
Chantal Akerman
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