Programme
I Want To Talk About Duras
Vous ne désirez que moi
2021 France 95 min N-16
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A man involved in a passionate relationship with Marguerite Duras, a celebrated writer of nearly 40 years his senior, needs to talk. He is immensely fascinated by her and yet he feels he just cannot go on anymore. He opens up, in an attempt to put into words the intensity of his love. Claire Simon recreated the real-life conversation between Yann Andréa and journalist Michèle Manceaux, documented on tape.
“Clair Simon documentaries often remind of fiction films, and it well defines her approach to her characters and their lives, themselves alike films. This time employing reenactment in documentary she opens an entirely new and somehow uncomfortable perspective to the personality of the beloved French literary classic. It’s a rare document which proves the lives in reality being way more complex than in fiction.” (Aistė Račaitytė)
World Premiere: San Sebastian Film Festival, Official Competition, 2021
“Clair Simon documentaries often remind of fiction films, and it well defines her approach to her characters and their lives, themselves alike films. This time employing reenactment in documentary she opens an entirely new and somehow uncomfortable perspective to the personality of the beloved French literary classic. It’s a rare document which proves the lives in reality being way more complex than in fiction.” (Aistė Račaitytė)
World Premiere: San Sebastian Film Festival, Official Competition, 2021
Director's biography
Claire Simon (b. 1955, London) after directing few independent short films discovered the practice of direct cinema and made several documentaries, which garnered multiple awards (At All Costs in 1995, Recreations in 1998). She wrote and directed three feature fiction films which were presented in the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes: A Foreign Body (1997), On Fire (2005), God’s Offices (2008). Her most recent films include Gare du Nord (2013), which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, and The Competition (2016), which premiered in Venice and won the award of Venice Classic’s best documentary.
Director(s) - Claire Simon
Screenwriter(s) - Claire Simon
Actors - Swann Arlaud, Emmanuelle Devos
Producer(s) - François d'Artemare
Cinematographer - Céline Bozon
Editor(s) - Julien Lacheray
Sound -
Composer(s) - Nicolas Repac
Sales agent - Luxbox
Distributor -
Production company -
Translation - Jurga Vilė
Dialogues - French
Subtitles - Lithuanian, English
Director's biography
Claire Simon (b. 1955, London) after directing few independent short films discovered the practice of direct cinema and made several documentaries, which garnered multiple awards (At All Costs in 1995, Recreations in 1998). She wrote and directed three feature fiction films which were presented in the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes: A Foreign Body (1997), On Fire (2005), God’s Offices (2008). Her most recent films include Gare du Nord (2013), which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, and The Competition (2016), which premiered in Venice and won the award of Venice Classic’s best documentary.
