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Hecate

Words usually come too late

22 Oct 1982
  • France
  • Switzerland
105 mins
5.444
9 votes
  • Drama
  • Romance
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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.
  • Bernard Giraudeau

    as Julien Rochelle
  • Lauren Hutton

    as Clotilde
  • Jean Bouise

    as le consul de France
  • Jean-Pierre Kalfon

    as Massard
  • Gérard Desarthe

    as Le colonel de Watteville
  • Juliette Brac

    as Miss Henry
  • Patrick Thursfield

    as L'Anglais
  • Suzanne Thau

    as La tenancière du bordel
  • Raja Reinking

    as La fille du bar
  • Mustapha Tsouli

    as Ibrahim
  • Teco Celio

    as Le capitaine Berta
  • Rose-Marie Schneider

    as

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