Hécate

Switzerland, 1982
FILM, Fiction, 105 min.

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directed by: Daniel Schmid
Written by: Daniel Schmid, Pascal Jardin
Status: In distribution

'India Song' and Somerset Maugham come together in 'HECATE', set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is what happens to a French diplomat, Julien Rochelle, when he meets the mysterious beauty Clothilde de Watteville. Schmid 's favorite axiom, that love is projection, never had such a thorough airing. Is Clothilde (played by the American actress Lauren Hutton) really the wife of a French official now holed up in Siberia? Or is she Hecate, goddess of black magic and devourer of the Arab boys she meets far from the European quarter? Only our projections know for sure; for the rest, she is a "woman looking out into the night."