TUE MARCH 15, 2022 10:00 pm LE NAVIRE NIGHT $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 With LE NAVIRE NIGHT, writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras explores the matrix of love, desire and language in her characteristically oblique and experimental style. The film’s lovers – played by Dominique Sanda and Mathieu Carrière – are never allowed to meet in person, instead carrying out their conversations over the phone, using unlisted phone lines leftover from the German occupation of Paris. Sequences play out in empty streets, nocturnal cityscapes and shadowy interiors, linked together only by the spectral presence of the character’s voices. “Elliptical yet ecstatic; as original as it is rare. [Duras] devises a new genre. A story about phone sex, which she transforms into an existential mystery and a gothic nightmare. Duras invents the conditional tense on film.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker. FORMAT: 35mm DISTRIBUTOR: Icarus Films