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Marguerite DurasDrehbuch:
Marguerite DurasKamera:
Sacha ViernyMusik:
Carlos D'AlessioBesetzung:
Claudine Gabay, Delphine Seyrig, Gérard Depardieu, François Périer, Nathalie Nell, Claude AufaureInhalte(1)
Marguerite Duras reunited with India Song collaborators Delphine Seyrig and composer Carlos d’Alessio for this hypnotically unsettling journey into one woman’s existential emptiness. Ensconced in a sprawling rental villa, the world-weary Vera Baxter (Claudine Gabay) receives visits from two women, including a mysterious stranger (Seyrig) to whom she recounts a shocking story about her marriage, the way she lives, and the reasons for her malaise. Setting her languid images to d’Alessio’s incongruously breezy, endlessly looping score, Duras fashions a quietly shattering portrait of marriage as a kind of prison. (Criterion)
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There was a time when the diegetic name, like an incantation, unleashed an unstoppable flow of non-diegetic music that sewed together every cinematic frame in a strip, and that time was during a period when avant-garde cinema did not trust linearity very much: the obsession with musical loops denies the directionality of the sound strip just as the typically Durasian windless-ness of a human ship stranded on an Atlantic shoal is all the more tossed by the winds of internal oceans, whose waves can sometimes hide the calm of depths already indifferent to everything or at other times, the calm surface masks underwater currents, but there is always a dialectic of surface and depth, which are never mutually visible at the same time, and because of that, the whirlwind of emotions, memories, and desires moves in cyclical self-transformations, attempting to unite that which cannot be united.
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