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Hecate

1982-10-22 · 105 min · ★ 5.7

Drama · Romance

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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Directors
Daniel Schmid
Production companies
Les Productions Audiovisuelles, TSR, TF1 Films Production
Countries
France, Switzerland
Status
Released

Top Cast

Bernard GiraudeauBernard GiraudeauJulien Rochelle
Lauren HuttonLauren HuttonClotilde
Jean BouiseJean Bouisele consul de France
Jean-Pierre KalfonJean-Pierre KalfonMassard
Gérard DesartheGérard DesartheLe colonel de Watteville
Juliette BracMiss Henry
Patrick ThursfieldL'Anglais
Suzanne ThauLa tenancière du bordel
Raja ReinkingLa fille du bar
Mustapha TsouliIbrahim
Teco CelioTeco CelioLe capitaine Berta
Rose-Marie SchneiderRose-Marie Schneider
Irene StaubIrene Staub
Karen Schenker-Donovan
Liz Panama
Michel Journot

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