Memoir of War

Name: Memoir of War
Genre: Drama, History
Released: August 17, 2018
Duration: 127 min
Rating: 57
Cast: Anne-Lise Heimburger, Benjamin Biolay, Benoît Magimel, Caroline Ducey, Emmanuel Bourdieu

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Music Box Films | Release Date: August 17, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Anne-Lise Heimburger, Benjamin Biolay, Benoît Magimel, Caroline Ducey, Emmanuel Bourdieu, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Joanna Grudzinska, Mélanie Thierry, Patrick Lizana, Shulamit Adar

Summary: It’s 1944 Nazi-occupied France, and Marguerite (Mélanie Thierry) is an active Resistance member along with husband Robert Antelme and a band of fellow subversives. When Antelme is deported to Dachau by the Gestapo, she becomes friendly with French Nazi collaborator Rabier (Benoît Magimel) to learn of her husband’s whereabouts. But as theIt’s 1944 Nazi-occupied France, and Marguerite (Mélanie Thierry) is an active Resistance member along with husband Robert Antelme and a band of fellow subversives. When Antelme is deported to Dachau by the Gestapo, she becomes friendly with French Nazi collaborator Rabier (Benoît Magimel) to learn of her husband’s whereabouts. But as the months wear on with no news of her husband, Marguerite must begin the process of confronting the unimaginable. [Music Box Films]… Expand

Director: Emmanuel Finkiel

Genre(s): Drama, History

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 127 min

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RogerEbert.com Matt Fagerholm

Aug 17, 2018

Among its many notable achievements, Memoir of War is one of the best films I’ve seen about the ways in which grief can pull a person in both directions simultaneously. Whereas the film’s first half plays more like a thriller, the second half proves to be an emotionally wrenching interlude perched on pins and needles. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Aug 15, 2018

Anchored by a brilliant Mélanie Thierry, whose stone-eyed lead performance is at the center of almost every frame, Finkiel’s film never betrays the distance that Duras inserted between herself and her own experiences, or that she wrote from the perspective of a vessel as much as she did a subject. Read full review

Hunter Lanier

Mar 1, 2019

Every once in a while, the story of an individual slips through the cracks. Memoir of War is one of those stories and, as such, provides an unseen perspective to a plotline that we all know well. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Aug 16, 2018

Ms. Thierry plays Marguerite with an understatement that can be enigmatic, seductive, or deliberately confounding. The picture as a whole doesn’t do justice to her committed performance. Read full review

Serena Donadoni

Aug 16, 2018

While clearly adoring Duras’s work, Finkiel doesn’t credit the strength it took for her to ruthlessly detail the experience. Read full review

Doris Toumarkine

Aug 16, 2018

There are few elements of suspense or intrigue in this drama, as it’s largely an inward journey into Duras’ agonized, shaky state of mind over the unknown whereabouts of her Resistance-member husband, Robert Anselme. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Aug 29, 2018

Writer/director Emmanuel Finkiel tries very hard to adapt Duras’ modernist storytelling tactics to Memoir of War and, at times, even succeeds in translating the author’s opaque blurring of the objective and the subjective. Read full review

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