Sombre

Sombre is a 1998 French film directed by Philippe Grandrieux, starring Marc Barbé and Elina Löwensohn. The film was nominated for the Golden Leopard and won the C.I.C.A.E. Award - Special Mention at the Locarno International Film Festival.

Sombre
Directed by	Philippe Grandrieux
Written by	Sophie Fillières Philippe Grandrieux Pierre Hodgson
Starring	Marc Barbé Elina Löwensohn
Release date	1998 (1998)
Running time	112 min.
Country	France
Language	French

Plot

The film deals with Jean (Marc Barbé), a serial killer who follows the Tour de France cycling race in his car and murders women (mostly prostitutes) along his way. Then he meets Claire (Elina Löwensohn), a psychologically troubled and confused woman who falls in love with him.

Sources

• Beugnet, Martine. (2005) ‘Evil and the senses: Philippe Grandrieux’s Sombre and La Vie nouvelle’, Studies in French Cinema, 5(3), pp. 175–184. https://doi.org/10.1386/sfci.5.3.175/1.
• Chamarette, Jenny. (2013) Phenomenology and the future of film: rethinking subjectivity beyond French cinema. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [See chapter 5: Threatened Corporealities: Thinking with the Films of Philippe Grandrieux]
• Hainge, Greg. (2017) Philippe Grandrieux: sonic cinema. New York ; London: Bloomsbury Academic (Ex:centrics).
• Rondeau, Corinne. (2001) ‘Sombre, la surface et la chair. A propos d’un film de Philippe Grandrieux’, in Murielle Gagnebin (ed.) Cinéma et inconscient. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, pp. 74–87.

External links

• Sombre at IMDb