Emmanuelle Devos as Marie Claire journalist Michèle Manceaux interviewing Yann Andréa (Swann Arlaud) on his relationship with Marguerite Duras in Claire Simon’s beautifully staged I Want To Talk About Duras
Swann Arlaud as Yann Andréa and Emmanuelle Devos as Michèle Manceaux give tremendous performances that circle around discoveries of deep personal truths in Claire Simon’s beautifully staged I Want To Talk About Duras (a highlight of the 59th New York Film Festival in the Currents programme). When they meet for the two audiotaped sessions one day apart, Marguerite Duras, as an invisible presence, can be felt through the floorboards below, and, because she interrupts with instinctively strategically placed phone calls, offering coffee and impatience.
Claire Simon with Anne-Katrin Titze on Marguerite Duras and Yann Andréa: “When she died he wrote a book which was adapted for the movies by Josée Dayan [Cet amour-là].”
In early December 1982, Yann Andréa, longtime lover of Marguerite Duras,...
Swann Arlaud as Yann Andréa and Emmanuelle Devos as Michèle Manceaux give tremendous performances that circle around discoveries of deep personal truths in Claire Simon’s beautifully staged I Want To Talk About Duras (a highlight of the 59th New York Film Festival in the Currents programme). When they meet for the two audiotaped sessions one day apart, Marguerite Duras, as an invisible presence, can be felt through the floorboards below, and, because she interrupts with instinctively strategically placed phone calls, offering coffee and impatience.
Claire Simon with Anne-Katrin Titze on Marguerite Duras and Yann Andréa: “When she died he wrote a book which was adapted for the movies by Josée Dayan [Cet amour-là].”
In early December 1982, Yann Andréa, longtime lover of Marguerite Duras,...
- 11/4/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In early December 1982, Yann Andréa, longtime lover of Marguerite Duras, decided to speak to Marie Claire journalist Michèle Manceaux about his relationship to the famous novelist and filmmaker who was 38 years his senior, mainly to gain more understanding about himself. He, a gay man, fell completely under her spell, at first for her writing, then for the person he wrote to for a year before she responded. He had met Duras at a post-screening Q&a of India Song and shyly approached her.
Swann Arlaud as Yann Andréa and Emmanuelle Devos as Michèle Manceaux give tremendous performances that circle around discoveries of deep personal truths in Claire Simon’s beautifully staged I Want to Talk About Duras (a highlight of the 59th New York Film Festival in the Currents programme). When they meet for the two audiotaped sessions one day apart, Duras, as an invisible presence,...
Swann Arlaud as Yann Andréa and Emmanuelle Devos as Michèle Manceaux give tremendous performances that circle around discoveries of deep personal truths in Claire Simon’s beautifully staged I Want to Talk About Duras (a highlight of the 59th New York Film Festival in the Currents programme). When they meet for the two audiotaped sessions one day apart, Duras, as an invisible presence,...
- 10/30/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A superfan dates his idol in Claire Simon’s I Want To Talk About Duras (Vous Ne Désirez Que Moi), premiering in the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Official Competition before screening at the New York Film Festival. Based on the transcript of an audio interview, the French language drama stars Swann Arlaud as Yann Andréa, a man 38 years younger than his novelist partner Marguerite Duras, whose screenplay for Hiroshima Mon Amour won her an Oscar nomination in 1959.
In 1980, the pair stirred the literary world by getting together, and two years into their relationship, Andréa confided in Michèle Manceaux (Emmanuelle Devos) over several taped sessions. The results were turned into a book after his death, no doubt a compelling read but a cinematic challenge. As Simon herself has said, “This is completely unsuited to cinema,” although the book did inspire a more conventional drama, Cet Amour-Là, in 2001. But if you...
In 1980, the pair stirred the literary world by getting together, and two years into their relationship, Andréa confided in Michèle Manceaux (Emmanuelle Devos) over several taped sessions. The results were turned into a book after his death, no doubt a compelling read but a cinematic challenge. As Simon herself has said, “This is completely unsuited to cinema,” although the book did inspire a more conventional drama, Cet Amour-Là, in 2001. But if you...
- 9/20/2021
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
"For the first time, a woman gave herself to me... It was total love." A festival promo trailer has debuted for the French romantic drama titled I Want To Talk About Duras, which is premiering at the 2021 San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain this week. Originally known as Vous ne désirez que moi in French, which translates to You Only Want Me (this title is more alluring for sure), this is the latest fictional film from filmmaker Claire Simon, known for many of her docs as well as her narrative films. I Want To Talk About Duras explores the relationship between French writer Marguerite Duras and her last partner Yann Andréa, who was 38 years her junior. César-winning actors Emmanuelle Devos and Swann Arlaud co-star as Manceaux and Andréa in the film, which is "based on an unedited transcript of a 1982 interview between Andréa and writer and journalist Michèle Manceaux." Worth...
- 9/20/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The film explores the relationship between French writer Marguerite Duras and her last partner Yann Andréa, who was 38 years her junior.
Screen can reveal the first trailer for Claire Simon’s I Want To Talk About Duras, which has been selected in competition at this year’s San Sebastian film festival (September 17-25).
The film explores the relationship between French writer Marguerite Duras and her last partner Yann Andréa, who was 38 years her junior.
César-winning actors Emmanuelle Devos and Swann Arlaud co-star as Manceaux and Andréa in the film, which is based on an unedited transcript of a 1982 interview between...
Screen can reveal the first trailer for Claire Simon’s I Want To Talk About Duras, which has been selected in competition at this year’s San Sebastian film festival (September 17-25).
The film explores the relationship between French writer Marguerite Duras and her last partner Yann Andréa, who was 38 years her junior.
César-winning actors Emmanuelle Devos and Swann Arlaud co-star as Manceaux and Andréa in the film, which is based on an unedited transcript of a 1982 interview between...
- 9/17/2021
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The 69th San Sebastian Film Festival has confirmed its first crop of Competition titles, including Terence Davies’ Benediction starring Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi.
The movie chronicles different moments in the life of Siegfried Sassoon, a soldier and anti-war poet who survived the First World War. This will be British director Davies’ third time competing for the Golden Shell – San Seb’s top award – following The Deep Blue Sea in 2011 and Sunset Song in 2015.
Also on the early list is the latest film from Lucile Hadzihalilovic, who previously bagged the San Seb New Directors Award with her debut, Innocence, in 2004, while her second feature, Evolution, landed the Special Jury Prize in the Official Selection in 2015. She returns this year with Earwig. Based on the novel by Brian Catling, it tells the story of Albert, a man employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice.
Claudia Llosa, winner...
The movie chronicles different moments in the life of Siegfried Sassoon, a soldier and anti-war poet who survived the First World War. This will be British director Davies’ third time competing for the Golden Shell – San Seb’s top award – following The Deep Blue Sea in 2011 and Sunset Song in 2015.
Also on the early list is the latest film from Lucile Hadzihalilovic, who previously bagged the San Seb New Directors Award with her debut, Innocence, in 2004, while her second feature, Evolution, landed the Special Jury Prize in the Official Selection in 2015. She returns this year with Earwig. Based on the novel by Brian Catling, it tells the story of Albert, a man employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice.
Claudia Llosa, winner...
- 7/19/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Film explores final personal relationship of writer of L’Amant.
Paris-based sales company Luxbox has boarded French filmmaker Claire Simon’s I Want To Talk About Duras, exploring the relationship between French writer Marguerite Duras and her last partner Yann Andréa, who was 38 years her junior.
The screenplay is based on an unedited transcript of a 1982 interview between Andréa and writer and journalist Michèle Manceaux, who was a long-time friend of Duras, which was published as a book entitled Je Voudrais Te Parler de Duras.
César-winning actors Emmanuelle Devos and Swann Arlaud co-star as Manceaux and Andréa in the film...
Paris-based sales company Luxbox has boarded French filmmaker Claire Simon’s I Want To Talk About Duras, exploring the relationship between French writer Marguerite Duras and her last partner Yann Andréa, who was 38 years her junior.
The screenplay is based on an unedited transcript of a 1982 interview between Andréa and writer and journalist Michèle Manceaux, who was a long-time friend of Duras, which was published as a book entitled Je Voudrais Te Parler de Duras.
César-winning actors Emmanuelle Devos and Swann Arlaud co-star as Manceaux and Andréa in the film...
- 2/25/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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