Her writing is brilliantly self-absorbed, and La Douleur is uniquely, bathysmally so despite its ostensible focus on Robert, whose screen time here totals around a minute. The takeaway seems to be that it is extremely difficult to adapt Marguerite Duras, unless in fact you are Marguerite Duras. They had begun to reek of mothballs.Īttempts to bring Duras’s books to the screen tend to invite extremes, with as many duds-see Jean-Jacques Annaud’s mawkish L’Amant (1992) and Jules Dassin’s 10:30 PM Summer (1966)-as gems, which include Duras’s own India Song (1975) and Détruire, dit-elle (Destroy, She Said, 1965). In one scene, Marguerite comes home and turns on the lights to find that her guest has washed the daughter’s clothes and hung them up to dry all around the living room. One day, Marguerite agrees to quarter a Madame Katz (Shulamit Adar), who stays in Paris to wait for her disabled daughter’s return from the camps. “Sadness suits you,” Rabier tells her, and it does-she wears it as she roves a desolate, swastika-bannered Paris smokes in her kimono waits for the water to boil. But while the film begins with the pat rhythms of a wartime thriller, setting up its heroes and villains, it eventually loosens into an atmospheric psychodrama. She winces through these grim flirtations, fantasizing about her eventual power to have him killed once Paris is liberated. He pulls one of Marguerite’s novels from his jacket and reads from it aloud. Rabier, an unbookish goon, tells her his dreams of opening an art bookstore one day. They rendezvous in daylight, at cafés and promenades. To learn more about her husband, Marguerite nurtures a perilous acquaintanceship with Rabier (Benoît Magimel), the corvine French collaborationist who detained him. For the phone to ring, for the doorbell to chime, for Robert’s name to appear in the newspaper among lists of the living, and for his presence.
#Marguerite duras the war movie
The movie is set during the waning of the war in Nazi-occupied Paris, where Marguerite (Mélanie Thierry), working within a Resistance cell, struggles alongside her paramour, Dionys (Benjamin Biolay), to secure updates on Robert (Emmanuel Bourdieu). For its American release, Emmanuel Finkiel’s new film adaptation of Duras’s account trades the plosive thud of its original title for the flatter Memoir of War, though it’s an apt choice considering that his film is obliquely but innately about writing and how it provides a means of survival, or at least something similar.Īfter all, words are all she has. Like Duras’s bestselling novella, La Douleur twists itself around a longing that is at times indistinguishable from revulsion, around the treasons of its author’s imagination as it slurs between hope and despair.
In 1985-one year after Duras enthralled the world with The Lover, a slim, fathomless autofiction of scarring desires too often misread as one of brave romance-the journal was finally published, alongside other memoir-like vignettes and two fictions, as La Douleur (Pain). I ship every day.I combine shipping of multiple purchases.NOT LONG AFTER HER HUSBAND, the philosopher and Resistance leader Robert Antelme, was ambushed by the Gestapo in Paris in 1944 and deported to Buchenwald, Marguerite Duras logged the ensuing period of uncertainty in a diary that would spend the next four decades yellowing in a cupboard, supposedly forgotten. Check out my other items: first editions, signed books, ARC’s and vintage paperbacks (erotic, adult, sci-fi).100% positive feedback. some short closed tears, some tiny chips, very minor rubbing/shelfwear, no foxing, no soiling.original price on jacket is $13.95a very nice copy of this book. small previous owner's name on end-paperNot an ex-library, not a book-club, no stamps, no stickers. Published by Pantheon 1986Book is in very good condition.1st edition, 1st printing.binding is straight and tight, no loose pages, book appears unread.There is no underlining or writing in the book. Item: 294119709160 THE WAR a memoir by Marguerite Duras - 1st HCDJ 1986.
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