this be a film that be slow in develop but not without lose it grip . it be not boring unless you be 18years old . actually and this be a mature film for mature viewer who understand the complexity and bliss of mid life relationship that be far complicate by the loss or disability of a steady partner whose pattern be well learn and experience along that long path . long relationship lead to an acceptance and crave for share performance and habit and body language either good or bad . in long term relationship and bad time be blend with the best . all bad time be without risk . a others have comment and marie ( charlotte rampling ) have lose her husband jean ( bruno cremer ) in a low key holiday trip to their seaside residence in southern france . we do not know much about them other than it appear that their relationship be either strained or okay . we learn those element not in high level drama but one of progressive mental torture go on in marie mind particularly after jean disappears beachside while marie be bask on the sand . this script be a tiptoe dance between the real and unreal while between sanity and insanity while between a temporary mental aberration induce by bereavement and the need to retain the memory of a life partner at all cost . perhaps and what we see be just a short slice in time or bad and something more permanent . we will never know that answer . we only know the experience that director françois ozon create that have an open end .