’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 forIn 1980, the pair stirred the literary world by getting together, and two years into their relationship, Andréa confided in Michèle Manceaux over several taped sessions.
The interview takes place in 1982, when Duras is approaching 70. Sitting upstairs in the home he shares with her, Andréa is keen to articulate his feelings to Manceaux. An avid fan of Duras’ work, he describes how he met her at an event and wrote letters to her for years before turning up at her door one day, stalker style. She responded by inviting him to move in, to be her lover and to submit to her whims, which he did.
Simon occasionally breaks for brief flashbacks, location changes, illustrations and, most revealingly, footage of the real Duras herself. Every glimpse of this indomitable woman gives more context to the film, and while Arlaud handles the material well, you’re left longing for more from the character he describes.
Devos is terrific, her slightly nervous mannerisms convincing without distracting, and although she’s remarkably quiet for a journalist, one assumes the transcript to be faithful to Manceaux’s restrained line of questioning. There are parallels here with Arnaud Desplechin’s Cannes title— in which Devos also appeared — another conversation-driven French drama preoccupied with sex and love.
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