The Lover

Release Date: 1996-12-01

Overview: A bereft filmmaker asks a series of women to pose nude for his camera in this striking and moody short film by Belgium's Olivier Smolders. The silent encounters act as counterpoint to a contemplative internal monologue musing on love, loss and the subtle power-plays of aversion and desire underway in an atmosphere pervaded by an irresistible erotic gloom. Filmed in a lustrous black and white, the themes explored find their perfect compliment in the stark, fascinated, all-embracing gaze of the camera. - Robert Avila

Rating: 5 / 10

Cast

Yves Degen

as

Catherine Grosjean

as

Éric Pauwels

as

Mélanie Rullier

as