"Enter anywhere at random, anywhere is terrifying. Wherever it is one asks: How could one live here? How could one live?"-Duras An oblique and electrifying look at family and society, Nathalie Granger chronicles an afternoon in the benumbed lives of two women (Jeanne Moreau and Lucia Bose) in their home on the outskirts of Paris. One is having trouble with her daughter, Nathalie, whose violent temper is making her unfit for public school; she's been "tagged" (for capture?). A sense of foreboding invades as they listen to radio reports of two teenagers who have murdered a child and are hunted in the surrounding forests. Enter Gérard Depardieu, traveling salesman, pathetic and somehow sinister, determined to sell the ladies of the house a washing machine they don't need. Perhaps he knows it all comes out in the wash. "Nathalie Granger is unusual in Duras's canon for its synchronized dialogue, its drollery, and its atmosphere of Pinteresque menace" (James Quandt, Cinematheque Ontario).