TUE MARCH 1, 2022 7:00 pm

DESTROY, SHE SAID

$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

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