TUE MARCH 1, 2022 7:00 pm DESTROY, SHE SAID $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | Co-presented by the Consulate General of France, Villa Albertine in Los Angeles. Marguerite Duras Retrospective. Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILM DESTROY, SHE SAID (DÉTRUIRE DIT-ELLE) Following an attempt by Joseph Losey to shoot her script, Marguerite Duras brought it to the screen herself and the writer-director’s gift for dialogue was rarely put to better use. Recuperating from a miscarriage, Catherine Sellers checks in to a remote French resort – or perhaps an asylum – where fellow residents Henri Garcin, Nicole Hiss and Michael Lonsdale (in his first of several Duras films) draw her into their company with strangely insinuating conversations. A brooding ennui hangs over the grounds’ tennis courts and chaise lounges in this spare B&W drama, whose surprising finish is equally ominous. FORMAT: 35mm DISTRIBUTOR: Editions Benoit Jacob