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The Vanishing (Dutch: Spoorloos, literally "Traceless" or "Without a Trace") is a French/Dutch film adaptation of the novella The Golden Egg by Tim Krabbé, released October 27, 1988. Directed by George Sluizer and starring Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, the film is about the disappearance of a young Dutch woman and her lover's obsessive search. In France the film was released under the title L'homme qui voulait savoir (The Man Who Wanted to Know).
On the film's American release in 1990, The Vanishing received great critical acclaim from film critics. Sluizer later remade the film for an English version in 1993, but the remake was poorly received.
A Dutch couple, Rex Hofman (Gene Bervoets) and Saskia Wagter (Johanna ter Steege), are on a cycling holiday in France. As they are driving, Saskia tells Rex of a recurring dream that she had, in which she is drifting through space in a golden egg. She tells Rex that this time there was someone else in another golden egg, and that if they were to collide, everything would be over. She said that being stuck in the golden egg was terrifying loneliness. Their car runs out of gas and they are stranded inside a tunnel. They quarrel for a while, but make up and eventually get going again.
Still I feel lost
In this chaotic world of hypocrisy
The memories still haunting me
And the voices echoing between
With a bleak smile on my face I feast
As I still mourn the past
I watch as the naked leaves fall
And rigid branches crackle under my feet
I will return to the peace I so long forgot
Regression and progression are the same
In this state of suspended animation
Heartless I lie on the coldest ground
...night is too bright for me
I learn't much of the lies
I have seen witches burning on stakes
I will never smell the fresh air again
My vision is blurred with fine hoarfrost
The horrendous truth
It blurred my vision
I glance (at you) with empty eyes
As I vanish into think fog
I realize that