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L'homme atlantique.In 1981, coinciding with the release of Marguerite Duras’s seventeenth film, L’homme atlantique, Le Monde published a short text—“a warning”—by the writer and filmmaker: It has become customary for the majority of cinemagoers in France to act as though cinema is something that is owed to them, to protest and scream bloody murder at the appearance of films that weren’t made for them alone. Therefore, I would like to tell these viewers not to step foot in the cinema that is screening "L’homme atlantique," that there is no use in doing so because the film was made in total ignorance of their existence.Later that year, in an interview conducted by Anne de Gasperi, Duras doubled down on her exclusionary rhetoric. “My cinema is not made for people who love cinema. I didn’t think about those people for a second,” she said.

Ivana Miloš, Agatha and the Limitless (2022), monotype, gouache, and collage on paper.Summer in WinterWhat would we do without air, without light?—Marguerite Duras, Agatha and the Limitless ReadingsThe hotel Les Roches Noires was located in Trouville-sur-Mer, France, and, as with so many hotels, its fame came from its visitors, in this case Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, Claude Monet, and Marguerite Duras. In 1981, the foyer of the hotel was decorated with several intriguing, almost otherworldly plants whose type it is difficult for an amateur to classify. I know of these plants because Duras used the abandoned off-season, Second Empire-style hotel, which served as her temporary home, as a location to film Agatha and the Limitless Readings in March of that year. With different texts and films set in Les Roches Noires, this should not remain the last time Duras looked through its huge windows towards the English Channel but the...

The International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg (Iffmh) has very much captured the social, cultural and political zeitgeist with this year’s film selections, exploring such themes as female empowerment, HIV/AIDS and the post-Soviet collapse of Ukraine.

“The festival doesn’t work in topics, we are trying to show the best films, but the interesting thing is that the topics come to us through the films,” says Iffmh director Sascha Keilholz. “Obviously we are sensitive to the whole range and diversity that can be had in cinema.”

Indeed, this year’s films in the On the Rise competition section and supplemental Pushing the Boundaries sidebar, which showcases cutting-edge works by young and established filmmakers, ended up sharing unmistakable themes. Many new female voices are putting their mark in Eastern European film with stories of women rebelling against patriarchy and male structures, for example, Keilholz points out. “That was quite striking for us.

Emmanuelle Devos as Marie Claire journalist Michèle Manceaux interviewing Yann Andréa (Swann Arlaud) on his relationship with Marguerite Duras in Claire Simon’s beautifully staged I Want To Talk About Duras

Swann Arlaud as Yann Andréa and Emmanuelle Devos as Michèle Manceaux give tremendous performances that circle around discoveries of deep personal truths in Claire Simon’s beautifully staged I Want To Talk About Duras (a highlight of the 59th New York Film Festival in the Currents programme). When they meet for the two audiotaped sessions one day apart, Marguerite Duras, as an invisible presence, can be felt through the floorboards below, and, because she interrupts with instinctively strategically placed phone calls, offering coffee and impatience.

Claire Simon with Anne-Katrin Titze on Marguerite Duras and Yann Andréa: “When she died he wrote a book which was adapted for the movies by Josée Dayan [Cet amour-là].”

In early December 1982, Yann Andréa, longtime lover of Marguerite Duras,...

In early December 1982, Yann Andréa, longtime lover of Marguerite Duras, decided to speak to Marie Claire journalist Michèle Manceaux about his relationship to the famous novelist and filmmaker who was 38 years his senior, mainly to gain more understanding about himself. He, a gay man, fell completely under her spell, at first for her writing, then for the person he wrote to for a year before she responded. He had met Duras at a post-screening Q&a of India Song and shyly approached her.

Swann Arlaud as Yann Andréa and Emmanuelle Devos as Michèle Manceaux give tremendous performances that circle around discoveries of deep personal truths in Claire Simon’s beautifully staged I Want to Talk About Duras (a highlight of the 59th New York Film Festival in the Currents programme). When they meet for the two audiotaped sessions one day apart, Duras, as an invisible presence,...

French director Claire Simon is putting the spotlight for her next documentary on the steps of life from birth to death for the bodies of women.

Simon, who was at the San Sebastian Film Festival with her latest film “I Want to Talk About Duras,” starts shooting this week at the Paris public hospital, Hopital Tenon, in the city’s 20th Arrondissement.

With “This Body of Women” (the literal English translation of the title) she plans to trace all of the female health cycles from birth to death.

“I’m doing a documentary about women’s bodies in a hospital in Paris. It’s all the [medical issues] around gynecology, like giving birth, abortion, endometriosis, IVF, cancer. It’s about all the stops of life but only for women,” she says.

Simon did some preliminary filming in July and hopes to be finished by November.

“It’s an incredible institution with top scientists.

A superfan dates his idol in Claire Simon’s I Want To Talk About Duras (Vous Ne Désirez Que Moi), premiering in the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Official Competition before screening at the New York Film Festival. Based on the transcript of an audio interview, the French language drama stars Swann Arlaud as Yann Andréa, a man 38 years younger than his novelist partner Marguerite Duras, whose screenplay for Hiroshima Mon Amour won her an Oscar nomination in 1959.

In 1980, the pair stirred the literary world by getting together, and two years into their relationship, Andréa confided in Michèle Manceaux (Emmanuelle Devos) over several taped sessions. The results were turned into a book after his death, no doubt a compelling read but a cinematic challenge. As Simon herself has said, “This is completely unsuited to cinema,” although the book did inspire a more conventional drama, Cet Amour-Là, in 2001. But if you...

"For the first time, a woman gave herself to me... It was total love." A festival promo trailer has debuted for the French romantic drama titled I Want To Talk About Duras, which is premiering at the 2021 San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain this week. Originally known as Vous ne désirez que moi in French, which translates to You Only Want Me (this title is more alluring for sure), this is the latest fictional film from filmmaker Claire Simon, known for many of her docs as well as her narrative films. I Want To Talk About Duras explores the relationship between French writer Marguerite Duras and her last partner Yann Andréa, who was 38 years her junior. César-winning actors Emmanuelle Devos and Swann Arlaud co-star as Manceaux and Andréa in the film, which is "based on an unedited transcript of a 1982 interview between Andréa and writer and journalist Michèle Manceaux." Worth...

The film explores the relationship between French writer Marguerite Duras and her last partner Yann Andréa, who was 38 years her junior.

Screen can reveal the first trailer for Claire Simon’s I Want To Talk About Duras, which has been selected in competition at this year’s San Sebastian film festival (September 17-25).

The film explores the relationship between French writer Marguerite Duras and her last partner Yann Andréa, who was 38 years her junior.

César-winning actors Emmanuelle Devos and Swann Arlaud co-star as Manceaux and Andréa in the film, which is based on an unedited transcript of a 1982 interview between...

Film explores final personal relationship of writer of L’Amant.

Paris-based sales company Luxbox has boarded French filmmaker Claire Simon’s I Want To Talk About Duras, exploring the relationship between French writer Marguerite Duras and her last partner Yann Andréa, who was 38 years her junior.

The screenplay is based on an unedited transcript of a 1982 interview between Andréa and writer and journalist Michèle Manceaux, who was a long-time friend of Duras, which was published as a book entitled Je Voudrais Te Parler de Duras.

César-winning actors Emmanuelle Devos and Swann Arlaud co-star as Manceaux and Andréa in the film...