Memoir of War
2017 · Movie · 127 min. · France
When she finds two old notebooks in a forgotten box, Marguerite Duras remembers her past and the unbearable pain of waiting. In the 1944 Nazi-occupied France, the young and brilliant author is an active Resistance member with her husband Robert Antelme. When he is deported by the Gestapo, she throws herself into a desperate struggle to get him back. She develops a chilling relationship with local Vichy collaborator Rabier and takes terrible risks to save Robert, playing a cat-and-mouse game of unpredictable meetings all over Paris. Does he really want to help her? Or is he trying to dig up information about the anti-Nazi underground movement? Finally the war ends and camp victims return, an excruciating period for her, a long and silent agony after the chaos of the Liberation of Paris. But she continues to wait, bound to the torment of absence even beyond hope.
Direction Emmanuel Finkiel
Cast Mélanie Thierry · Benoît Magimel · Benjamin Biolay · Shulamit Adar · Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet · Emmanuel Bourdieu · Elsa Amiel · Anne-Lise Heimburger · Patrick Lizana · Joanna Grudzinska · Caroline Ducey · Salomé Richard · Bertrand Schefer · François Prodromidès · Stanislas Nordey
Screenplay Emmanuel Finkiel · Marguerite Duras
Cinematography Alexis Kavyrchine
Original title La douleur
Also known as Memoir of War
5.4
487 votes (FilmAffinity)
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