THE REFUGE

THE REFUGE (LE REFUGE), 2009

France | DVD, Color, 88’ | French

Cast:Isabelle Carré, Louis-Ronan Choisy, Pierre Louis-Calixte

The Refuge is the last film in Ozon’s Trilogy of Death, following Under the Sand and Time to Leave. One day, drug-addicted couple Mousse and Louis overdose in Louis’s Paris apartment. Mousse wakes up in a hospital, learning that her rich young boyfriend is dead and that she is pregnant. Feeling emotionally conflicted, she moves into a home by the seaside, far from the city. A few months later, Louis’s brother joins her, and the two become close in a slightly unconventional way. As in the other films in the trilogy, The Refuge addresses how people cope with death and loss, while also reflecting on how a woman’s pregnancy affects both her and the men in her life.