An adult sister and brother, played by Bulle Ogier and Yann Andréa (Duras’s partner at the time), united by a forbidden love, meet in a vacant seaside villa bathed in a cold winter light. Overlooking the deserted beach and incessant sea, they become lost in memories. Duras adapts her own play, Agatha, from that same year, and voices the woman, and Andréa the man, with their voiceovers the only dialogue, while our two silent characters do not meet until the film’s conclusion. Image and sound are entirely dislocated.

The screening will be introduced by Prof. Laura Rascaroli, Department of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork.

Notes by Marie-Pierre Richard.

Screening as part of the Marguerite Duras retrospective as part of this year’s IFI French Film Festival!