The Ship Night

Marguerite Duras / France / 1979 / Czech Premiere / 95 min.

synopsis

This is undoubtedly one of the most impressive works. It's a film that failed. It's an evocation of Facebook and Tinder. Duras exclaimed after the filming was over, “It's a failed film… it's the end of the film!” It wasn't until a dream brought her a solution and she filled the screen with footage from the failed shoot. The central theme are the anonymous phone lines from the period of German occupation, used by hundreds of men and women to make long calls, establish relationships and find love. Marguerite Duras as the all-female voice and Benoît Jacquot as the all-male voice gradually draw us into a world of loneliness and despair. The romantic relationships of beings who will never meet… just like today in the virtual world.

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.