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Saturday, Mar 25, 1995
The Death of a Young English Aviator and To Write
Benoît Jacquot has made two films on Marguerite Duras and the writer's imagination. In The Death of a Young English Aviator (Le mort du jeune aviateur anglais, 36 mins), Duras emotionally recounts the story of an English flyer whose grave she discovered in a small village near Deauville. We do not know whether this is a true story or one of Duras's fictions; but between her words, spoken in Paris, and images of the Normandy village, the film touches on the mystery of writing. In To Write (Êcrire, 43 mins) Duras talks about writing and solitude in the house where she lived alone for several years, and where she wrote The Vice Consul and The Ravishing of Lol Stein.
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