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The Lover (French: L'Amant) is an autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published in 1984 by Les Éditions de Minuit. It has been translated into 43 languages and was awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt. It was adapted to film in 1992 as The Lover.
Duras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on 4 April 1914, in Gia Định, [1] Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam).Her parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877–1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872–1921), were teachers from France who likely had met at Gia Định High School.
The wine helps her to relax at the setting, and forget about the social burdens she holds. Symbolically, the act describes her casting off of these social burdens, and the image of alcohol as liberation recurs in Duras's works. [6] Biographically, Duras was alcoholic at various periods of her life, giving added weight to this symbol. Motorboat
Duras later said that she felt that Brook had "made the film beautifully." [7] However, Belmondo, who preferred making adventure films, disliked the picture. In a 1964 interview, he said: It was very boring. Like Antonioni's films, Marguerite Duras' script was full of sous-entendus (hidden meanings).
The writer Marguerite Duras (played by a chain-smoking Dominique Blanc) is depicted in a particularly damning light, as she insinuates herself into the investigation by accusing the mother of the crime, based on no evidence except her own fabricated psychological theories, helping to whip up a judicial witch-hunt.
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The Lover (French: L'Amant) is a 1992 erotic romantic drama film produced by Claude Berri and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.Based on the semi-autobiographical 1984 novel of the same name by Marguerite Duras, the film details the illicit affair between a teenage French girl and a wealthy Chinese man in 1929 French Indochina.
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