“Marguerite Duras’ most perfectly realized film, the most feminine film I have seen, a rarefied work of lyricism, despair, and passion, imbued with a kind of primitive emotional hunger that is all the more moving for its austere setting.”
—Molly Haskell 

In 1930s India, off-screen gossip narrates the downfall of Anne-Marie Stretter (Delphine Seyrig, JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES), the French ambassador’s wife who is driven by boredom and her own affliction (a “leprosy of the soul”) into the arms of the disgraced French vice-consul. A hypnotic haunting from “La Duras.”

Featuring a post-film discussion and a pop-up shop on Saturday, December 21. My Cinema by Marguerite Duras is available for purchase at Alienated Majesty Books, in-person or online here.