Oliver (Demy) and Marianne (Régnier), his pregnant French fiancée have come to vacation in Corsica, where she swims while he joins his cousin Vincent (de Peretti) and other locals in the daily boar hunts. Though Oliver grew up on the Island, he is returning to Corsica from Paris, and is accepted in the hunting party only because he is with Vincent. Many of the older women in the village know his mother or grandmother, but they are skeptical of his Parisian girl friend. His vacation is turned upside down when he stops to get air for his tire at the local convenience store and witnesses a murder of the cashier by one of the more volatile men of the hunting party. But he does not go to the police right away, trying to figure out weather to tell anyone. And of course, his aunt tells him that in Corsica that people cannot get hurt if they mind their own business. But his silence takes its toll, straining his relationship with his fiancée and making him even more quiet on the hunt and with Vincent. Well developed realistic hunting scenes and subtle male female dynamics. This is intense, uncomfortable and real with a constant low level tension developed by the tight music and effective black and white dream sequences.
Review of Le silence
