Dir: Marguerite Duras | Jeanne Moreau, Lucia Bose, Gerard Depardieu | Drama, France
Marguerite Duras is not exactly renowned as a crowd pleaser, I didn’t really expect to enjoy this film – especially since it was shot in drab black & white with probably deliberately inexpressive acting by the leads – when I dutifully sat down to see it, but in its playfully sinister way it proved quite diverting.
Lucia Bose and Jeanne Moreau play two women in early middle age, who live together alone, whether siblings or lovers never being made clear.
Perhaps the film’s highlight involves a young Gerard Depardieu as a washing machine salesman nervously attempting to interest the two women in purchasing a new model. The two ladies just stare and constantly contradict him, and one is never sure if they intend to rape him or kill him. @RichardChatten