Le Naivre Night (Duras, 1979): ICA Cinema, 5pm
This film is part of the excellent Marguerite Duras season at the ICA (full details here) and is also being screened on August 30th.
ICA introduction:
In another of Duras's experiments with wresting sound from image, the through-line of Le Navire Night
is a story of love and desire sustained and nourished through sound
waves. The film’s voice-over tells the story of a woman, terminally ill
with leukemia, living in isolation at her wealthy father's villa, and a
man working night shifts at a telephone company. They have never met in
person. For a period, they connected over unused phone lines: remnants
of the German occupation of Paris. Now they have lost contact
altogether. This story is illustrated by pans and travelling shots of an
empty Paris – its touristscapes and an overgrown cemetery – and three
actors (Dominique Sanda, Bulle Ogier, Mathieu Carrière) as they prepare
to shoot a film (this film?).
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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