Memoir of War
From the life of Marguerite Duras
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 8, 2019
- Originally Released: 2017
- Label: Music Box Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay & Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet | |
| Directed by | Emmanuel Finkiel | |
| Screenplay by | Emmanuel Finkiel | |
| Original story by | Marguerite Duras |
Entertainment Reviews:
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4 stars out of 4 -- Finkiel -- a former assistant director to one of Duras’ great admirers, Jean-Luc Godard -- finds provocative ways for the novel’s text to inform his film’s visual canvas.
RogerEbert.com
Rating: 3/5 --
Inevitably, the novel's subtleties are lost in translation, and Emmanuel Finkiel's film drags at times, but Ms. Thierry's portrayal of the alternately tender and ruthless writer is fascinating.
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Irish Independent
[I]t absorbingly dramatizes certain key episodes from the legendary writer's private life in Paris during 1944-45.
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 4/4 --
One of the best films I've seen about the ways in which grief can pull a person in both directions simultaneously.
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RogerEbert.com
Ms. Thierry plays Marguerite with an understatement that can be enigmatic...
New York Times
Rating: 5/5 --
This is a powerful film, for its tense wartime emotions and exploration of inner life.
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We Are Movie Geeks
"Memoir of War" is a movie that dreadfully empties a vast experience, that reduces colossal events to dramatic simplicities and trivializing shortcuts.
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New Yorker
Product Description:
When her communist husband Robert (Emmanuel Bourdieu) is sent to a concentration camp during the World War II German occupation of France, young writer Marguerite Duras (Mélanie Thierry) begins a cat-and-mouse relationship with the Gestapo agent (Benoît Magimel) who arrested Robert in hopes of gaining information for the Resistance and locating her husband. While grieving her imprisoned husband, she also finds herself falling for another fellow Resistance member (Benjamin Biolay). Directed by Emmanuel Finkiel. Based on "THE WAR: A MEMOIR" by French writer Marguerite Duras.
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