Joa (Bulle Ogier), an archaeologist from Mexico, comes to Paris in search of her sister Anna (Mireille Perrier), of whom she is suddenly without news. Anna, a theater actress, was in the title role in Sade's "Justine" when she disappeared. The investigation leading Joa to the people who have known her sister, turns into an initiatory quest. Her journey, her stroll through a subterranean marginal Paris, leads also to the emergence of a new woman.
Cinematography
Subterranean Paris as living, breathing character
Acting
Bulle Ogier's hypnotic, searching presence
Direction
Carasco's singular feminist vision, criminally overlooked
Director
Raymonde Carasco
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Raymonde Carasco made only two features; this and 1984's Nuit doc are her complete fiction output.
Shot in actual Parisian catacombs and underground spaces, capturing a marginal city now largely sanitized.
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