Let Cinema Go To Its Ruin:
The Cinema of Marguerite Duras
La Femme du Gange + Nuit noire, Calcutta
Dwelling on the immortality of desire, La Femme du Gange sees a man return to the coastal location of S. Thala. Haunted by the memory of an affair he had had there long ago, he intends to kill himself. Playing alongside the newly restored Nuit Noire, Calcutta by Marin Karmitz, which, informed by Duras's experiences with alcoholism, also features the wanderings of a troubled man in a coastal town.