The Unburdening

Year: 1983

Runtime: 78 mins

Language: French

Director: Marcel Schüpbach

Drama

In this surreal, overstated black‑and‑white work directed by Marcel Schuepbach, a young woman confined to her grandmother’s quiet country house becomes increasingly unhinged by a yearning for a more passionate life. Her grandmother, haunted by the memory of her own daughter who lost sanity and died beside her lover’s grave, sees frightening parallels in the granddaughter’s descent, amplifying the film’s melancholy tension.

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