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Based on the harrowing WWII memoir of Marguerite Duras, screenwriter of HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR!
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“Wrenching….Marguerite is played by Mélanie Thierry (The Zero Theorem), and the performance is a devastating one: unease and confusion with nowhere to direct it.”
– Andrew Lapin, NPR
“Ambitious and graceful….Finkiel’s film certainly understands the taxing nature of sorrow.”
– Guy Lodge, Variety
“This isn’t a movie about set-up and payoff, it’s a movie about the torment of being stuck in your head, and the insoluble loneliness of walking through a crowd of people who are oblivious to your private suffering.”
– David Ehrlich, IndieWire
“Melanie Thierry leaps towards the front echelons of current French actresses with her riveting turn as Marguerite Duras.”
– Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter
In Emmanuel Finkiel’s haunting adaptation of Marguerite Duras’s semi- autobiographical novel, The War: A Memoir, the famed author (Mélanie Thierry) recounts an emotionally complex story of love, loss, and perseverance against a backdrop of wartime intrigue.
It’s 1944 Nazi-occupied France, and Marguerite is an active Resistance member along with husband Robert Antelme and a band of fellow subversives. When Antelme is deported to Dachau by the Gestapo, she becomes friendly with French Nazi collaborator Rabier (Benoît Magimel) to learn of her husband’s whereabouts. But as the months wear on with no news of her husband, Marguerite must begin the process of confronting the unimaginable. Using subtly expressionistic imagery and voiceover passages of Duras’s writing, Finkiel evokes the inner world of one of the 20th century’s most revolutionary writers. (Music Box Films)
