Rent Memoir of War (2017)
3.0 of 5 from 91 ratings
2h 6min
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- Synopsis:
In 1944 Nazi-occupied France, the young Marguerite Duras (Mélanie Thierry) is a talented writer and an active Resistance member with her husband Robert Antelme (Emmanuel Bourdieu). When he is deported by the Gestapo, she dives into a desperate struggle to get him back. She develops a chilling relationship with the detective Rabier (Benoît Magimel), and takes terrible risks to save Robert. Does Rabier he really want to help, or is he trying to dig up information about the anti-Nazi underground? Then comes the end of the war and the return of surviving camp victims, 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 and love. - Actors:
- Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Emmanuel Bourdieu, Anne-Lise Heimburger, Patrick Lizana, Shulamit Adar, Joanna Grudzinska, Caroline Ducey, Salomé Richard, Olivier Veillon, Bertrand Schefer, Mathias Labelle, Nathan Gabily, François Prodromidès, Stanislas Nordey, Barouch Rafiq, Lukas Trotta, Elsa Amiel
- Directors:
- Emmanuel Finkiel
- Producers:
- Julien Deris, Yael Fogiel, David Gauquié, Laetitia Gonzalez, Etienne Mallet, Michel Merkt, Vincent Roget, Nathalie Vallet
- Writers:
- Marguerite Duras, Emmanuel Finkiel
- Aka:
- La Douleur
- Studio:
- New Wave Films
- Genres:
- Drama
- Countries:
- France
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Reviews (2) of Memoir of War
A close look at the final days of WW2 - Memoir of War review by TE
Melanie Thierry is rarely off screen in this film version of Marguerite Duras' account of her scarcely bearable wait for her husband's release from Nazi concentration camps. Thierry's performance holds the film together despite its 'split' structure.
The first half is all about her contact with a French Nazi who is in a position of power over her husband's fate. This ambiguous connection builds intriguingly but then stops suddenly with little sense of resolution.
The second half records Duras' prolonged and exhausting wait for news of her husband.
The film is very faithful to the lived experience of those French citizens who defied the Nazi occupation. The individual tragedies are placed in the foreground, and Thierry's face is painfully eloquent.
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This is a very VERY French film - slow, arty, everyone smokes endlessly - about WWII in Paris - Memoir of War review by PV
If you like slow arty French films where everyone smokes endlessly and looks philosophically into the middle distance spouting poetry, you'll be in heaven with this.
Me, I liked bits of it, when it focused on the story and events. Supposedly based on truth.
All about Paris in the latter stages of WWII. The wait for those who may or may not return from POW or concentration camps in Germany.
Some bits are baffling. The issue of how many French collaborated with the German regime has never ever really been explored much on screen, and it is good to have a glimpse of that here, at least.
2 stars
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