"Suna No Onna"."Woman in the dunes"."La femme de sable" II

[susiaway]

amazing!

[ghadastique]

WOW.. this was filmed in outer space

[frozinfire]

wow.. the music comes in so swiftly

[Urbino237]

A classic that reaches to some basic existentialist realities of our lives, both disturbing and compelling for those reasons.

[EJade40]

@ Vh1Rican ~ W/E. Can you come up with a more original screen name? lolz.

[czaja86]

however, doing it on sand is never a good idea

[StatuesBleedingGreen]

Teshigahara's criterion collection is well worth it.

[gengoro1]

gorgeous! toru takemitsu music

[Vh1Rican]

@EJade40 no one cares

[ultimaesperanza04]

Master piece!

[barnabycross]

so not prison..punishment...

[barnabycross]

so not prison..punishment...

[barnabycross]

Got it....罰がなければ、逃げるたのしみもない　A lot of translators seem to have it as the threat of punishment..but it read punishment only, as in the threat is implied and makes more sense of the quote. Sounds Nietzche-ian....

[barnabycross]

@VariedInterest: I seem to recall from reading the original that the quote is more like ' ' Without prisons there would be no joy of escape' its probably a quote..I took the pit to be paradoxically the trap of social behavoiur itself or the trap of woman. After all he is hunting insects himself while he is lured into a trap, his pastime being a temporary escape from society.

[Hcosl]

The image of woman as a symbol for the swallowing dunes, the breasts and the thighs that trap...a work of art

[ThatLovelyEnglishBob]

Funnily enough, the exact same music plays whenever I have sex.

[nocnamalpa]

@ThatLovelyEnglishBob its not so often , he? hahaha

[Olengher]

This is for me one of the best films, until they make cien anos de soledad into film.People always try to involve reason into sureallist art and don't just enjoy it.'If they're afraid of the sand, tackle it scientifically".And he stays.

[FlamencoChe]

Mmmmmmmmm...........

[cunoamit]

Pure cinema

[friendsofthefruitsof]

one of the best and a great film too.

[thedewangel]

I'm reading this novel right now. It's great. I don't wanna get spoiled with the movie yet so I'm just taking a glimpse at this. Just fascinating.

[sclogse1]

wrong. great music. reminds me of legeti's stuff. The music is not just about them...

[JackNightingale]

I love this film - the sand never stops coming. A truly great film - but I never got the love story stuff, to me it's a horror story - a big time horror story.

[NatureIsNotHuman]

She is the poor, alienated, hungry for love soul of the modern man. The horror comes from the state in which not he has her, but she has got him and entrapped him. Great great novel and great movie, really a masterpiece.

[JackNightingale]

NatureIsNotHuman - your comment, "She is the poor, alienated, hungry for love soul of the modern man.", I can see that now. A materpiece, for sure. Thanks - Jack

[kardios]

she doesn't want a modern man. otherwise she would had left the place long ago... sure she's alienated and its more about sex and lack of love...

[JackNightingale]

kardios - I understood it as she couldnt leave, but she accepted that, and she didnt have a problem with it. And she knew that in order to have a rewarding life (even in a meaningless world) one needed to share it with somebody else. And in the end the man also comes to the same realization, and stops trying to escape, and they live happily ever after, even though their existence is really meaningless, because the sand never stops coming. - Jack

[VariedInterest]

Well the novel begins with a short phrase, "Without threat of punishment, there's no joy in flight". This concept still carries over completely. It suggest how we can reconcile pretty much anything so long as we have the sense that we can be the direct author of our fate. As long as that is met we seem to have limitless capacity for enduring exploitation or abuse. But we can be fooled into thinking either one. But we have a basic need of interrelation.

[JackNightingale]

Variedinterest - thanks for your developed insights - it's a gift to write well about film, especially at your age, and I encourage you to try your hand writing about new film creations here on YouTube (it's the most exciting place to play, imo). - Jack

[kardios]

once you fall into it there is no way of coming out.

[VariedInterest]

It has nothing to do with "modern" or traditional gender roles. Youre reading a very shallow and misguided western misogyny angle into it. The book goes into more detail about the sexual relationship and how standard ideas about gender are actually quite foolish, but you need to be able to read first to appreciate this.

[kaguth]

I think one of the things that is great about this film is that it can be interpreted in many different ways. The way I see this scene is that these two human beings are reduced to a basic and purely human state. When you strip away all the trifle attachments that come along with modernity, the way we identify ourselves by our profession, our class, our clothes, our ideology, ect, all you haver are two human beings who succumb to the most natural of biological instincts.