The tale of a woman whose husband is caught by the Nazis muffles the fury and anger of Marguerite Duras’ book
his over-polite adaptation of the French writer Marguerite Duras’s semi-autobiographical book about life in occupied Paris during the second world war has the feel of an Audible audiobook reading. Duras’s soul-stripping words are here, but little thought appears to have gone into translating them for cinema. Mélanie Thierry does her best in the lead as Duras, but her character is maddeningly flat and dull.
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