Si le soleil ne revenait pas (1987)

Directed by

Claude Goretta

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Switzerland

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

12

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a remote Alpine village, the old people decide that winter will never end and that the sun will not return. A young man challenges their fatalism as the community waits for a sign of hope.

slow-burnmeditativemelancholicatmosphericintrospectivesymbolicquietcontemplative

What happens

If the Sun Never Returns (French: Si le soleil ne revenait pas) is a 1987 Swiss-French film directed and written by Claude Goretta, based on Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz’s novel of the same name. It was entered into the main competition at the 44th Venice International Film Festival and was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th Academy Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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