Woman in the Dunes

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W. W. W @Witt2k9 Feb 21 The photograph is depressing. See more Michael Edwards T @Mikedbigame Nov 14 Probably one of the best 5 foreign films I've ever seen. I usually can't do Plus-2 hour foreign films, but this one had me captivated. Did not feel 130 minutes. See more Leo P @RT23366938 Oct 18 This shockingly good fairy tale for adults, an allegory, works on all levels: on the ground level and below, in a sandpit, where a man is trapped with a young woman whose only goal in life is to shovel sand. See more Richard G @RT44676617 Sep 22 Be patient. Like walkng in the woods. Just take it in slowly. A man who's missed his bus innocently takes a place to sleep for the night in a house in a large pit in the dunes. The villages wont let him escape. He is trapped in the house with its sole resident, a woman who spnds her her life digging sand to keep her house from being buried. He struggles against his fate for much of the film while she patiently points out how to survive. It reminds me of what I think Sartre means by "No Exit" & the solution is love and acceptance. But mine are just words. The film makes you feel this. If you think the continual sand is a metaphor, choose whatever you will for what the metaphor is of (sorry). I thnk it is cheap and simplistic to see it as a metaphor for the "meaningless of work in a capitalist society". The majority of people work at dull jobs in most societies, save maybe hunter gatherers, who die when there is no game. See more Dani G @RT81139271 06/07/2025 Interesting film, that I sincerely didn't pay total attention for some reason, but worth a second watch See more 诗杨 傅 @RT11234304 01/18/2025 Have you ever seen a damp desert? It is both hope and despair; it is a scream and also silence. It hides traps, yet nurtures new springs. It sparks elusive love between men and women, yet strikes the longing for life. It is the unbearable filth, yet also the emptiness of seclusion. It embraces, yet devours; it is both a burden and vitality; it is madness, yet also utterly meaningless. See more Read all reviews

Woman in the Dunes

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