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The Captive

Play trailer Poster for The Captive 2000,  1h 58m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 92% 12 Reviews Tomatometer 47% 250+ Ratings Popcornmeter
92% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 47% Popcornmeter 250+ Ratings
Suspecting his girlfriend (Sylvie Testud) is bisexual, an obsessed man (Stanislas Merhar) follows her every move and demands complete submission.

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Richard Brody The New Yorker Feb 24, 2020
Finding rhapsodic melodrama in high art, Akerman pulls Mozart out of the opera house and into the bedroom with an arch a-cappella duet for separated lovers. Go to Full Review
V.A. Musetto New York Post May 9, 2002
3/4
La Captive is so good that it makes amends for A Couch in New York, Akerman's simply dreadful 1996 English-language love story. Go to Full Review
David Wood BBC.com May 7, 2001
4/5
A gently captivating, deceptively austere work. Go to Full Review
Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024
Atypically movieish (i.e., Hitchcockian) for Ackerman but still adamant, unpredictable. Go to Full Review
A.S. Hamrah The Baffler Sep 18, 2020
While it exposes Simon as unnecessary and annoying, the film does not quite propose an all-female Proust. Instead, it lets Ariane slip away and disappear into the sea, a resonant and familiar exit in Akerman's films. Go to Full Review
Nick Davis Nick's Flick Picks Jul 7, 2009
B+
For the high-minded, literary, and formally invested viewers who are receptive to how she works and what she worries about, the film offers a starkly insinuating exercise in the contemplation of love. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Chantal Akerman

Director

Stanislas Merhar

Simon

Sylvie Testud

Ariane

Olivia Bonamy

Andrée

Liliane Rovère

Françoise

Françoise Bertin

The grandmother

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The Captive

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Movie Info

Synopsis Suspecting his girlfriend (Sylvie Testud) is bisexual, an obsessed man (Stanislas Merhar) follows her every move and demands complete submission.
Director
Chantal Akerman
Producer
Paulo Branco
Screenwriter
Chantal Akerman, Eric De Kuyper
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Streaming)
May 22, 2017
Runtime
1h 58m
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