Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver)

Marguerite Duras / France / 1979 / Czech Premiere / 50 min.

synopsis

“Both films were born from a letter I wrote to someone I didn't know. We only spoke on the phone. I had only seen that person once before, thirteen years ago. I forgot her face and only remembered her voice. I didn't send the letter in the end, but it made me start writing again.”

“I wrote Vancouver in a month and a half, it was 13 pages on a typewriter. We only had 72 minutes of material, we didn't use one reel. So we only used 68 minutes. The film is exactly 50 minutes. I didn't use 18 minutes.” – Marguerite Duras

biography

The writer, playwright, screenwriter, and eventually director entered the world of film in the second half of the 1950s. Initially, she adapted her own works or wrote original scripts. Her independent film directing work begins in the 1970s. She was a completely original artist who brought modernism to cinema.