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As in La Mort du jeune aviateur anglais, Benoit Jacquot films his friend Marguerite Duras talking, which is an event in and of itself – her girlish hair, her hunched intentness, her elegance, her piercing conversational style (every utterance is a precisely conveyed, reverberating thought), her great sad eyes. And this time, the talk is of writing — the act of writing, the loneliness, the magnificence, the madness, the “night” of writing. At one wonderful moment, Duras dismisses most of modern literature with the simple observation that most of the books she reads “don’t have enough night in them.” Far more than simply an illustrated guide to Duras’ final book, Jacquot places his own measured cinematic voice in perfect harmony with Duras’ memory of the “madness” of writing.
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In 1944, a young Englishman crashed his plane into a bank of trees in Trouville, a small town near Deauville. He was taken down, and eventually buried by the local townspeople, who paid for a beautiful gravestone and commemorated his death every year with a ceremony. This is not a film about that soldier, but about the importance this story (recounted in her final book, Ecrire) holds for Marguerite Duras, and the fields of memory and the sense of loss it evokes. The ageless mandarin Duras sits in a chair and tells the story to an off-camera Benoit Jacquot — “It’s not a novel, or a poem, or a song — it’s conversations.”
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