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Sea the Sea
Film poster
Directed byFrançois Ozon
Written byFrançois Ozon
Produced byNicolas Brevière
Olivier Delbosc
StarringSasha Hails
Marina de Van
CinematographyYorick Le Saux
Edited byJeanne Moutard
Music byÉric Neveux
Distributed byMars Distribution
Release date
  • 3 December 1997 (1997-12-03)
Running time
52 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

See the Sea (original title: Regarde la mer) is a 1997 French film written and directed by François Ozon and starring Sasha Hails as a young British mother living in a small seaside village in France who takes in a malevolent homeless drifter (played by Marina de Van) while her husband is away on business.

Plot

The Englishwoman Sasha lives on Île d'Yeu near France with her ten-month-old daughter and her husband, who is often away for business. One day, when Sasha is home alone, the drifter Tatiana appears at Sasha's door and asks her for permission to pitch her tent in the garden. At first reserved and reluctant, Sasha eventually allows her this and both women begin to develop a relationship with each other. Sasha decides to go shopping and leaves Sioffra in Tatiana's care. When, upon her return, she finds everything in order, she finally invites Tatiana inside her house, even though she is irritated by Tatiana's unusual behavior.

When Sasha's husband comes home on the following day, he finds an empty house. In the tent behind the house lies Sasha bound and dead. Tatiana holds the crying Sioffra on a ferry, which is leaving the island.

Cast