09 March 2010

Marguerite Duras on Film


The film leg of our city's all-out, month-long tribute to Marguerite Duras salutes her radical directorial career. While that means sorry to Hiroshima Mon Amour and The Lover, it does provide a chance to see the polymathic femme's classics India Song and Nathalie Granger. The languorous former stars Delphine Seyrig in colonial India, circa the '30s, and tracks her "colonial sickness," while the latter draws ellipses around the fantastic, trapped trio of Jeanne Moreau, Lucia Bose, and Gérard Depardieu. There's also the absurdist pleasure of Les Enfants, which features a 40-year-old playing a seven-year-old.

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