French professor and Marguerite Duras specialist Sophie Bogaert will introduce and discuss a unique and exclusive 50-minute film featuring Marguerite Duras as she evokes her vision of an adaptation of her novel The Lover.
In a dialogue with producer Claude Berri and other movie professionals, she progressively unveils her conception of experimental cinema.
Part of In the Words of Duras Festival

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