| Description |
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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two-dimensional moving image tdi rdacontent |
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video v rdamedia |
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videodisc vd rdacarrier |
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digital rdatr |
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optical rdarm |
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NTSC rda |
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video file rdaft |
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DVD video |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
| System Details |
DVD, all regions, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; mono. |
| Language |
French dialogue, with English subtitles. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
| Cast |
Dominique Sanda, Mathieu Carriere, Bulle Ogier, Marguerite Duras, Benoit Jacquot; narrated by Benoit Jacquot and Marguerite Duras. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1979. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| Summary |
Writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras explores the matrix of love, desire and language in her characteristically oblique and experimental style. The film's lovers are never allowed to meet in person, instead carrying out their conversations over the phone, using unlisted phone lines leftover from the German occupation of Paris. Elliptical sequences play out in empty streets, nocturnal cityscapes and shadowy interiors, linked together only by the spectral presence of the character's voices. At once dreamlike, intimate and fundamentally anonymous, this film challenges the conventional relationship between sound, image and narrative. |
| Note |
Bonus film: Marguerite as she was (a portrait of Duras by her longtime editor and collaborator) |
| Subject |
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
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Telephone operators -- Drama.
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Solitude -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Motion pictures, French.
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| Added Author |
Duras, Marguerite, film director, actor.
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Sanda, Dominique, 1948- actor.
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Carrière, Mathieu, actor.
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Ogier, Bulle, 1939- actor.
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Icarus Films, publisher.
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| Standard No. |
854565003705 |
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00854565003705 gtin-14 |
| Music No. |
00370 Icarus Films Home Video |
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