Nathalie Granger (Duras, 1972): ICA Cinema, 8.40pm
This film is part of the excellent Marguerite Duras season at the ICA (full details here) and will also screen on August 9th. The evening will start with a new restoration of François Barat’s Gaumont-Palace, screening for the first time in the UK.
Chicago Reader review:
A neglected early feature by Marguerite Duras (1972), produced by Luc
Moullet, full of poker-faced, absurdist humor and deceptive sound cues.
Jeanne Moreau and Lucia Bose sit around in a country house doing very
little apart from listening to radio reports about two teenage killers
in the neighborhood. Occasionally they’re joined by their two little
girls (one of them named Nathalie Granger); more often we’re reminded of
them by the offscreen sound of their piano lessons. On two occasions, a
very young Gerard Depardieu turns up, trying to sell a washing machine
and getting more than he bargains for. It’s hard to describe this
beautiful miniature, but somehow it reduces the whole modern world to
audiovisual shorthand; Duras’ verbal and visual terseness has seldom
been put to better use.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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