Hecate

Hecate (1982)

Hécate

Words usually come too late

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 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." Drawn from a novel by Paul Morand, who based the main character on his wife Helene, Schmid's film achieves an atmosphere of magic in which psychological credibility is not so much absent as irrelevant-a film that distances itself from the drama it invokes, perhaps as the elusive Clothilde turns her back on the madness she provokes.

Date of release
1982-10-22
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Daniel Schmid

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Hecate and Her Dogs

Hécate is a 1982 Swiss drama film directed and co-written by Daniel Schmid. Adapted from Paul Morand’s novel Hécate et ses chiens, it stars Bernard Giraudeau and Lauren Hutton and follows a love story set in colonial-era Morocco. The film premiered in 1982 and was screened in competition at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival in 1983. It was later screened at festivals including Buenos Aires, Ankara and Zurich.

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