L’HOMME
ATLANTIQUE
France 1970 DIRECTOR: MARGUERITE DURAS
JUNE 7 TUE 7.30 PM Guild Theatre
L’HOMME ATLANTIQUE, made using the outtakes of another
film, explores writing and the image’s disappearance.
“I think the darkness is in all my films, buried, beneath
the image. . .I have only tried to reach the film’s
deep flow. . .” —Marguerite Duras. FOLLOWED BY
MARGUERITE, A REFLECTION OF HERSELF
(45 mins.)
Followed
by:
 MARGUERITE,
A REFLECTION OF HERSELF
France 2002 DIRECTOR: DOMINIQUE AUVRAY
JUNE 7 TUE Guild Theatre
“This eloquent portrait of Duras by her collaborator
and editor Dominique Auvray incorporates a rich array of archival
materials from Duras’ childhood in what is now Vietnam
and throughout her long career as both writer and filmmaker.”—Irina
Leimbacher.
(61 mins.)
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 NATHALIE
GRANGER
France 1972 DIRECTOR: MARGUERITE DURAS
JUNE 8 WED 7.30 PM Guild Theatre
“A story of two women (Jeanne Moreau and Lucia Bosé)
who worry about a daughter’s violent behavior at school,
listen to radio accounts of a murderer at large, and are visited
by a traveling washing-machine salesman (Gérard Dépardieu).
Less formally experimental than later works, it refuses conventional
narrative payoffs and powerfully evokes the emotional bonds
between the two women and the tensions which pervade their
off-screen world.”—Irina Leimbacher.
(85 mins.)
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 INDIA
SONG
France 1975 DIRECTOR: MARGUERITE DURAS
JUNE 9 THUR 7.30 PM Whitsell
Auditorium
“Her best known film, INDIA SONG is a Durasian love
story and an exploration of the melodic power and autonomy
of off-screen voice. Set in India of the 1930s during monsoon
season, a beautiful diplomat’s wife (Delphine Seyrig)
suffers from ‘colonial sickness,’ haunted by the
specter of a beggar woman and unable to engage with the world
and the suitors who surround her. While the images reveal
only a luxurious gathering of an indolent colonial elite,
the voices evoke frustrated passions and the desolation of
characters who cannot act upon their desires nor articulate
the horror which occasionally pierces their choreographed
world.”—Irina Leimbacher
(120 mins.)
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