![]() Rapid Aging: Everyone on the beach ages a few years every half hour, condensing an entire lifetime into just 24 hours.Playing Doctor: After aging into teenagers, Zoe (who is mentally five) inspects Louis's "nice new hair"… and winds up giving him an erection, which she finds cool.No Name Given: We never learn the name of Charles's Mother-in-Law before her death.Modesty Towel: The children use towels to cover themselves after they outgrow their bathing suits, but they discard them for the rest of the story not long afterwards.Improbable Infant Survival: The baby girl Zoe gives birth to is perfectly healthy, even despite the beach's conditions.Express Delivery: Zoe, one of the rapidly aging children, ages into a teenager, winds up pregnant after having sex with Louis, and swiftly delivers a baby girl.The last scene shows her building a sandcastle. ![]() Zoe and Louis's daughter is the last surviving person, though in the body of a 50 year old and will inevitably age to death as well. Downer Ending: Everyone inevitably dies of old age on the beach.Night Shyamalan wrote, directed and produced the graphic novel’s film adaptation, Old. Soon everybody is growing older-every half hour-and there doesn't seem to be any way out of the cove. Then there is the odd fact that all the children are aging rapidly. It's a perfect beach day, or so thought the family, young couple, a few tourists, and a refugee who all end up in the same secluded, idyllic cove filled with rock pools and sandy shore, encircled by green, densely vegetated cliffs.įirst there is the dead body of a woman found floating in the crystal-clear water. It was initially published in France, before being translated into English by Nora Mahony and released in the United States in 2013. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Sandcastle is a French-language Swiss sci-fi mystery graphic novel written by Pierre Oscar Lévy and illustrated by Frederik Peeters. Peeters’ accomplished European realist comics style and Lévy’s utterly natural dialogue suit to a tee this maximally eerie, unsettlingly plein air exercise that Kafkaesquely defies all explanation. At the rate they’re aging, they’ll all be dead by tomorrow morning. Attempts to leave the area prove futile, and further calls don’t go through. The young children of two of the families start growing, the little ones right out of their swimsuits and the preteens into puberty. ![]() While awaiting the police, the doctor’s mother dies. One paterfamilias, a racist, xenophobic physician, angrily accuses the North African of murder and calls the cops. Later, but still early in the morning, three families intent on sunbathing and picnicking encounter the man, then find the girl’s corpse in the pool. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īy a tidal pool near a small beach on France’s Mediterranean coast, a North African–looking man glimpses a young woman stripping to swim. Weighty stuff, expertly told.” ―The Comics Bulletin “Peeters and Lévy convey some profound, if profoundly unsubtle, truths about the human condition. “ Sandcastle is a fast 112-page read you won't be able to put down.” ― “Begins like a murder mystery, continues like an episode of The Twilight Zone, and finishes with a kind of existentialism that wouldn’t be out of place in a Von Trier film.” ― Publishers Weekly, starred review Levy’s dramatic storytelling works seamlessly with Peeters’s sinister art to create a profoundly disturbing and fantastical mystery. Soon everybody is growing older―every half hour―and there doesn’t seem to be any way out of the cove. ![]() It’s a perfect beach day, or so thought the family, young couple, a few tourists, and a refugee who all end up in the same secluded, idyllic cove filled with rock pools and sandy shore, encircled by green, densely vegetated cliffs.įirst there is the dead body of a woman found floating in the crystal-clear water. ![]()
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