Last updated on May 15, 2025
A film by Louise Hémon
With: Galatea Bellugi, Matthieu Lucci, Samuel Kircher, Oscar Pons, Sharif Andoura
1899. On a stormy night, Aimée, a young Republican schoolteacher, arrives in a snowy hamlet on the edge of the Alps. Despite the mistrust of the inhabitants, she is determined to shed light on their dark beliefs. As she blends into the life of the community, a sensual vertigo grows within her.
Our rate: **
A first film reminiscent of Vermiglio in essence. A fine intention, a technically interesting film (with fine photography and interesting musical work), noticeable documentary work, and for a period film, nothing that would spoil the original ambition. Yet the film doesn’t compare with Vermiglio, which is more powerful, more profound, more aesthetically elaborate, more thoughtfully studied in its cinematographic approach, and more historically intriguing in its documentary scope, in that it refers more subtly to our own times – something that L’engloutie, which we’d describe as a sincere and lovely first film, doesn’t quite manage to do.
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