Grain of Sand

Delphine Seyrig plays a middleaged woman coping with an ungovernable present and holding out hopes of escaping to a more pleasant past She leaves her current residence to retreat to her provincial French hometown Here she dreams of locating and rekindling an old love Seyrig is less inscrutable here than in her debut featurefilm appearance Last Year in Marienbad 61 though the character is just as complex and difficult to please Grain of Sand was released in France in 1983 as Le Grain de Sable