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La Captive (2000) is a Belgian-French art-house drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Chantal Akerman based it on the fifth volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
Simon shares a sprawling Paris apartment with Ariane and cannot let go. He follows her through the city unseen, interrogates her mid-conversation, tracks every hour she spends away from him. Ariane absorbs it quietly — but she has a private life Simon knows nothing about. The not-knowing is what corrodes him. Sylvie Testud and Stanislas Merhar play the couple with an unnerving stillness.
Akerman constructs the film from long, static takes and near-silence — no score, no editorial shortcuts. It earns its slowness: jealousy treated as a clinical condition rather than a dramatic event. Watch La Captive (2000) online on iFILM.
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