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Hecate

(1982)

Drama, Romance

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1hrs 45m

Overview

Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is what happens to a French diplomat, Julien Rochelle, when he meets the mysterious beauty Clothilde de Watteville. Schmid 's favorite axiom, that love is projection, never had such a thorough airing. Is Clothilde really the wife of a French official now holed up in Siberia? Or is she Hecate, goddess of black magic and devourer of the Arab boys she meets far from the European quarter? Only our projections know for sure; for the rest, she is a "woman looking out into the night." Drawn from a novel by Paul Morand, who based the main character on his wife Helene, Schmid's film achieves an atmosphere of magic in which psychological credibility is not so much absent as irrelevant-a film that distances itself from the drama it invokes, perhaps as the elusive Clothilde turns her back on the madness she provokes.

Score

54

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Bernard Giraudeau as Julien Rochelle

Bernard Giraudeau

** Julien Rochelle

Lauren Hutton as Clotilde

Lauren Hutton

** Clotilde

Jean Bouise as le consul de France

Jean Bouise

** le consul de France

Jean-Pierre Kalfon as Massard

Jean-Pierre Kalfon

** Massard

Gérard Desarthe as Le colonel de Watteville

Gérard Desarthe

** Le colonel de Watteville

Juliette Brac as Miss Henry

Juliette Brac

** Miss Henry

Patrick Thursfield as L'Anglais

Patrick Thursfield

** L'Anglais

Suzanne Thau as La tenancière du bordel

Suzanne Thau

** La tenancière du bordel

Raja Reinking as La fille du bar

Raja Reinking

** La fille du bar

Mustapha Tsouli as Ibrahim

Mustapha Tsouli

** Ibrahim

Teco Celio as Le capitaine Berta

Teco Celio

** Le capitaine Berta

Rose-Marie Schneider as Unknown role

Rose-Marie Schneider

** Unknown role

Irene Staub as Unknown role

Irene Staub

** Unknown role

Karen Schenker-Donovan as Unknown role

Karen Schenker-Donovan

** Unknown role

Liz Panama as Unknown role

Liz Panama

** Unknown role

Michel Journot as Unknown role

Michel Journot

** Unknown role

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