"For nights and nights they live with the telephone off the hook. Sleep against the receiver. Speaking or falling silent. Enjoying one another....It's a black orgasm. Without reciprocal touching. Nor face. Eyes closed. Your voice, alone... The text of voices says the eyes closed."-from the screenplay A trio of top European actors-Bulle Ogier, Dominique Sanda, Mathieu Carrière-star in this film that shows here for the first time. Duras employs the ostensible-film-within-a-film format used so cleverly in Le Camion, here to tell of an extraordinary love affair conducted entirely by telephone. The voices of Duras and fellow filmmaker Benoît Jacquot provide the dialogue, narrate the movements of the actors. It's a bold directorial intervention, part Kabuki, part Sacha Guitry, pure Duras.