DESTROY, SHE SAID
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Los Feliz 3 | Co-presented by the Consulate General of France, Villa Albertine in Los Angeles.
Marguerite Duras Retrospective.
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- RELEASED IN: 1969
- 100 MINUTES
- DIRECTED BY: MARGUERITE DURAS
ABOUT THE FILM
DESTROY, SHE SAID (DÉTRUIRE DIT-ELLE)
Following an attempt by Joseph Losey to shoot her script, Marguerite Duras brought it to the screen herself and the writer-director’s gift for dialogue was rarely put to better use. Recuperating from a miscarriage, Catherine Sellers checks in to a remote French resort – or perhaps an asylum – where fellow residents Henri Garcin, Nicole Hiss and Michael Lonsdale (in his first of several Duras films) draw her into their company with strangely insinuating conversations. A brooding ennui hangs over the grounds’ tennis courts and chaise lounges in this spare B&W drama, whose surprising finish is equally ominous.
FORMAT: 35mm
DISTRIBUTOR: Editions Benoit Jacob
