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  • 2018
  • Music Box Films
  • 2 h 7 m
  • 2018
  • Music Box Films
  • 2 h 7 m

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 the...

Directed By: Emmanuel Finkiel

Written By: Marguerite Duras, Emmanuel Finkiel

  • 2018
  • Music Box Films
  • 2 h 7 m
  • 2018
  • Music Box Films
  • 2 h 7 m

Memoir of War

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
57
User Score Generally Favorable
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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 the...

Directed By: Emmanuel Finkiel

Written By: Marguerite Duras, Emmanuel Finkiel

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Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
57
42% Positive
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58% Mixed
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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42% Positive
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58% Mixed
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
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.
By Matt Fagerholm FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Hunter Lanier FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 23, 2018
Thierry is utterly convincing and compelling from first to last, in a deglamorized but sensual performance of tautly controlled severity and uncompromising rigor.
By Neil Young FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 16, 2018
While clearly adoring Duras’s work, Finkiel doesn’t credit the strength it took for her to ruthlessly detail the experience.
By Serena Donadoni FULL REVIEW
40
May 22, 2019
Mélanie Thierry does her best in the lead as Duras, but her character is maddeningly flat and dull.
By Cath Clarke FULL REVIEW
40
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.
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Production Company Cinéfrance 1888, Cinéfrance Plus, Les Films du Poisson, KNM, France 3 Cinéma, Versus Production, Need Productions, Same Player, Proximus, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Canal+, Orange Cinéma Séries, France Télévisions, Eurimages, La Région Île-de-France, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, SofiTVciné 4, Cinémage 11, Sonia Films, Cinefrance, Fondation Carac
Release Date Aug 17, 2018
Duration 2 h 7 m
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Tagline From the Life of Marguerite Duras, Bestselling Authout of The Lover
Website https://filmsdulosange.com/en/film/la-douleur-2/
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Awards

César Awards, France
• 8 Nominations
Globes de Cristal Awards, France
• 3 Nominations
Haifa International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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