Film program
Matinees
Fridays 1.30pm, Saturdays 11am & Sundays 11am
The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
Baxter, Vera Baxter
Marguerite Duras
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France
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1977
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Unclassified (15+)
When
Wed 25 Jun 2025
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A woman (Claudine Gabay) languishes in a sprawling villa where she is visited by several guests. In a truly formidable performance, Seyrig’s unnamed visitor acts as Duras’ envoy, her role and dialogue representing the author’s own disruptive feminism and compassionate existentialism.
Drawing on elements from her earlier play Suzanna Adler, and adapted from a then-unpublished novel, this “harsh take on bourgeois conformity and prostitution” (Ivone Margulies) is accompanied by Carlos D’Alessio’s hypnotic score. With Noëlle Châtelet and Gérard Depardieu.
Format: DCP
Language: French with English subtitles
Source: Tamasa
Courtesy: Tamasa
Runtime: 95 mins
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