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Memoir of War (2017)

La douleur (original title)
| Drama, History | 17 August 2018 (USA)
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Marguerite must navigate through the hardships of the Liberation after losing her husband and starting a relationship with the enemy during the War.

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Cast overview, first billed only:
... Marguerite Duras épouse Antelme
... Pierre Rabier
... Dionys Mascolo
... François Mitterrand - alias François Morland
Emmanuel Bourdieu ... Robert Antelme
Anne-Lise Heimburger ... Mme Bordes
Patrick Lizana ... Georges Beauchamp
Shulamit Adar ... Madame Katz
Joanna Grudzinska ... Thérèse
... La cliente du restaurant Saint-Georges
... Une femme au rapatriement à Orsay
Olivier Veillon ... Un camarade du réseau
Bertrand Schefer ... Un camarade du réseau
Mathias Labelle ... Un camarade du réseau
Nathan Gabily ... Un camarade du réseau
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June 1944, France is still under the German occupation. The writer and communist Robert Antelme, major figure of the Resistance, is arrested and deported. His young wife Marguerite Duras, writer and resistant, is torn by the anguish of not having news of her and her secret affair with her comrade Dyonis. She meets a French agent working at the Gestapo, Pierre Rabier, and, ready to do anything to find her husband, puts himself to the test of an ambiguous relationship with this troubled man, only to be able to help him. The end of the war and the return of the camps announce to Marguerite Duras the beginning of an unbearable wait, a slow and silent agony in the midst of the chaos of the Liberation of Paris.

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Original literary source: 'La Douleur", novel by Marguerite Duras, Paris, P.O.L., 1985, 207 pages, ISBN: 2867440424. See more »

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A near death experience
13 February 2018 | by – See all my reviews

SUM UP : you read the book and liked it ? -> GO see the movie! Not read or read and not liked? -> GO see another movie!

STORY The story is about a wife that has no information about the return of her husband that went to war. So she tries to find out what happend to him.

NOTHING BUT PAIN The film is full of pain, and is very slow, just l ike the book I heard. I would say that, while the crew might have done a great job turning the book into a move, the movie was not enjoyable: I go to movies to feel emotions, and I did not feel any but pain in this one. I had to leave the movie after 1H30 min because I was just losing my time.

RATING 4 because the cast was nice, and as said, the crew did a fine job given the book..
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