Hecate

Hecate

Words usually come too late

1982 fr 105 minutes

Rating: 5.4

Plot

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.

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Cast

Bernard Giraudeau

Bernard Giraudeau

Julien Rochelle

Lauren Hutton

Lauren Hutton

Clotilde

Jean Bouise

Jean Bouise

le consul de France

Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Massard

Gérard Desarthe

Gérard Desarthe

Le colonel de Watteville

Juliette Brac

Juliette Brac

Miss Henry

Patrick Thursfield

Patrick Thursfield

L'Anglais

Suzanne Thau

Suzanne Thau

La tenancière du bordel

Raja Reinking

Raja Reinking

La fille du bar

Mustapha Tsouli

Mustapha Tsouli

Ibrahim

Teco Celio

Teco Celio

Le capitaine Berta

Rose-Marie Schneider

Rose-Marie Schneider

Irene Staub

Irene Staub

Karen Schenker-Donovan

Karen Schenker-Donovan

Liz Panama

Liz Panama

Michel Journot

Michel Journot

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