Cet Amour-La

This strange-but-true tale of a December-May romance involving an older woman and a man 36 years her junior is notable for two reasons: The woman in question is writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras, famous in cinema circles for having written the enigmatic screenplay from which Alain Resnais' groundbreaking HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (1959) was made. The other incentive to sit through Josee Dayan's pretentious but gorgeously photographed look at the last 16 years of the writer's life is that the timeless Jeanne Moreau plays Duras. True to the self-obsessed insularity of passionate affairs, Dayan remains focused on the intense, often anguished, relationship between Duras a...