72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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La douleur / Memoir of Pain

Emmanuel Finkiel
France      126 m.
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When she finds two old notebooks in a forgotten box, Marguerite Duras remembers her past and the unbearable pain of waiting. In the 1944 Nazi-occupied France, the young and brilliant author is an active Resistance member with her husband Robert Antelme. When he is deported by the Gestapo, she throws herself into a desperate struggle to get him back. She develops a chilling relationship with local Vichy collaborator Rabier and takes terrible risks to save Robert, playing a cat-and-mouse game of unpredictable meetings all over Paris. Does he really want to help her? Or is he trying to dig up information about the anti-Nazi underground movement? Finally the war ends and camp victims return, an excruciating period for her, a long and silent agony after the chaos of the Liberation of Paris. But she continues to wait, bound to the torment of absence even beyond hope.

Director
Emmanuel Finkiel
Screenplay
Emmanuel Finkiel
Production
Les Films du Poisson (France)
Yael Fogiel, Laetitia Gonzalez
Photography
Alexis Kavyrchine
Edition
Sylvie Lager
Music
Nicolas Becker
Cast
Mélanie Thierry, Benjamin Biolay, Benoît Magimel, Emmanuel Bourdieu
Format
DCP FOLLOWING DCI
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TF1 Studio
6, place Abel Gance
92100
Boulogne-Billancourt
France
Running Time
126 m.
Country
France
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