L’Homme Atlantique (Duras, 1981) + Les Mains Négatives (Duras, 1979):
ICA Cinema, 6pm
This programme of two shorts is part of the excellent Marguerite Duras season at the ICA (full details here) and is also being screened on August 24th.
ICA introduction (to L’Homme atlantique):
Duras described L’Homme atlantique as her “most listenable film”,
and what we hear is a woman’s account (voiced by Duras, and undoubtedly
autobiographical) – often informed by cruelty – of her pain, having
just been left by the man she loves. But Duras was also aware of its
aesthetic shock, and, at the time of its one-cinema release in Paris,
wrote a “warning” to potential audiences in Le Monde: "
I would like to warn everyone that most of the film is composed of
black. 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, and that, by entering, they will only be
disturbing those who are about to become the film’s audience. To these
people, I say: do not take the risk of walking out of the film, do not
buy a ticket in the first place."
Please be warned: the ICA will issue no refunds.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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