Directed by:
Emmanuel FinkielCinematography:
Alexis KavyrchineCast:
Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Elsa Amiel, Grégoire Gros, Benjamin Biolay, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Emmanuel Bourdieu, Shulamit Adar, Laure Giappiconi (more)VOD (1)
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When she finds two old notebooks in a forgotten box, Marguerite Duras remembers her past and the unbearable pain of waiting. In the 1944 Nazi-occupied France, the young and brilliant author is an active Resistance member with her husband Robert Antelme. When he is deported by the Gestapo, she throws herself into a desperate struggle to get him back. She develops a chilling relationship with local Vichy collaborator Rabier and takes terrible risks to save Robert, playing a cat-and-mouse game of unpredictable meetings all over Paris. Does he really want to help her? Or is he trying to dig up information about the anti-Nazi underground movement? Finally the war ends and camp victims return, an excruciating period for her, a long and silent agony after the chaos of the Liberation of Paris. But she continues to wait, bound to the torment of absence even beyond hope. (San Sebastian International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Mélanie Thierry
France
Best movies:
The Hollow Crown (2012) (series)
The Legend of 1900 (1998)
The Inverse Canon (2000)
Benoît Magimel
France
Best movies:
Hate (1995)
The Taste of Things (2023)
My Way (2012)
Elsa Amiel
France
Best movies:
On War (2008)
Saint Laurent (2014)
Camille Rewinds (2012)
Grégoire Gros
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Ein Sommer in Südfrankreich (2016) (TV movie)
Memoir of War (2017)
Benjamin Biolay
France
Best movies:
Stella (2008)
Didine (2008)
Divorce Club (2020)
Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
France
Best movies:
Love Songs (2007)
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011)
Emmanuel Bourdieu
France
Best movies:
Le Pont des Arts (2004)
Memoir of War (2017)
Shulamit Adar
Best movies:
Kings & Queen (2004)
Memoir of War (2017)
Laure Giappiconi
Best movies:
That Kind of Summer (2022)
Fidelio: Alice's Journey (2014)
À mon seul désir (2022)
Anne-Lise Heimburger
Best movies:
Endangered Species (2017)
Renoir (2012)
Paris Memories (2022)
Stanislas Nordey
Best movies:
Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die (1995)
Three Colors: Blue (1993)
Memoir of War (2017)
François Prodromidès
Best movies:
Memoir of War (2017)
Garance Chansigaud
Best movies:
Rose (2022)
Memoir of War (2017)
Alexander Schuster
Best movies:
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Memoir of War (2017)
Mathias Labelle
Best movies:
Memoir of War (2017)
Elsa Tauveron
Best movies:
A Simple Heart (2008)
Aline: The Voice of Love (2020)
A Monkey on My Shoulder (2012)
Léa Todorov
Best movies:
Memoir of War (2017)