One of the most involving psychological mysteries in recent memory.

| Original Score: A | Apr 30, 2024

This Ozon movie doesn't make me cold or hot, but I do distinguish Charlotte Rampling's solid performance. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 20, 2020

François Ozon finds exactly the right tone for telling the story, particularly in a subtly atmospheric opening stretch - played out elliptically, almost like a silent movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2019

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Quando o filme chega ao fim, podemos até não saber muito mais sobre o desaparecimento de Jean, mas certamente nos aprofundamos na complexa psiqué de sua esposa.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 21, 2004

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 19, 2003

A measured yet deeply enthralling character study of loss and loyalty.

| Feb 13, 2003

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

A stately and reticent portrait of arrived-at bereavement... and the capacity for self-delusion [anchored by] the beautiful and talented Rampling, enjoying her largest, most interesting role in some years.

| Original Score: B | Sep 23, 2002

The film takes you slowly and confidently to the labyrinth of denial that often accompanies horrific loss.

| Jun 3, 2002

Charlotte Rampling is delightfully sincere and believable in her subtle performance.

| Original Score: A | May 13, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 79/100 | May 11, 2002

A beautiful and challenging film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2002

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 5, 2002

Under The Sand lifts the phantom-spouse syndrome to the level of art, yet another dimension for this popular form.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 1, 2002

Under The Sand is vaguely disturbing, in an emotional sense, at all times.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 1, 2002

... this picture demands (and rewards) close study ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 1, 2002

Though flawed, this is a mature discussion of loss, denial and sanity that engages both the audience's heart and its head.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 17, 2001

Characters will do or say something that seems inexplicable until Ozon provides a context, and suddenly it all makes sense.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2001

Where Rampling really bares herself is in the emotional revelations and rawness she delivers in just about every screen.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2001