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Le Navire Night

Year

1979

Language

FRENCH (ENGLISH subtitles)

Duration

1h 30m

Rating

NR

CC

Performers

Bulle Ogier, Dominique Sanda, Mathieu Carrière, Benoît Jacquot, Marguerite Duras

Directed By

Marguerite Duras

Publication Information

Icarus Films

Summary

With LE NAVIRE NIGHT, writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras (L'Amant, India Song) 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. Elliptical sequences play out in empty streets, nocturnal cityscapes and shadowy interiors, linked together only by the spectral presence of the character's voices.

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