Updates on the Alma Powell Branch Library can be found on kpl.gov/pow

DVD

1 of 1 Copy Available

  • CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection
Log In to Place HoldMore Details

Baxter, Vera Baxter

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

DVD special edition.

Languages

In French, with English subtitles.

Performers

Claudine Gabay, Delphine Seyrig, François Périer, Gérard Depardieu, Noëlle Chatelet, Claude Aufaure, Nathalie Neil.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2023]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (95 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Marguerite Duras had already established herself as one of the major figures of postwar French literature when she launched an equally fascinating and unclassifiable career in cinema, translating her elliptical, experimental style to the screen through an unprecedented fusion of hypnotic, highly stylized imagery and radically disjunctive sound. Boldly reimagining the possibilities of dialogue, music, silence, and architectural space, the tantalizing, sphinxlike evocations of soul-deep female malaise India Song and Baxter, Vera Baxter embody Duras's singular multisensory approach, with each opening up new spaces for the expression of women's interior worlds. BAXTER, VERA BAXTER - Marguerite Duras reunited with India Song collaborators Delphine Seyrig and composer Carlos d'Alessio for Baxter, Vera Baxter, a hypnotically unsettling journey into one woman's existential emptiness. Ensconced in a sprawling rental villa, the world-weary Vera Baxter receives visits from two women, including a mysterious stranger to whom she recounts a shocking story about her marriage, the way she lives, and the reasons for her malaise. Setting her languid images to d'Alessio's incongruously breezy, endlessly looping score, Duras fashions a quietly shattering portrait of marriage as a kind of prison.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1977.

Disc originally released as part of the two-disc set Two films by Marguerite Duras.

Special features: 2K digital restoration ; Marguerite as she was, a 2003 portrait of Duras ; interview from 1977 with Duras ; new English subtitle translation.

Share: Facebook Twitter