Captive of the Desert
Raymond Depardon: Humanity in Focus
February 20 - March 4
Strikingly visualized and consummately gripping, this rare fiction film by Raymond Depardon stars Sandrine Bonnaire as a young French aid worker in an anonymous African country who is held captive for several months by rebel soldiers.
In this rare fiction film by Raymond Depardon, Sandrine Bonnaire stars as a young French aid worker in an anonymous African country. When she is kidnapped by an armed band of rebel soldiers, she finds herself holding on for dear life amid several chaotic months as their hostage, though their motive remains mysteriously obscure. Partly based on the experience of archaeologist Françoise Claustre (who was held captive by Chadian rebels for three years in the mid-1970s), Captive of the Desert is a strikingly visualized and consummately gripping account of an individual in an uncommonly perilous situation, and Bonnaire is utterly entrancing in her evocation of grit and terror alike.
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