Product Details

• Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Aymeric Demarigny, Christiane Rorato, Sophie Milleron, Justine Lévy
• Directors: Josée Dayan
• Writers: Josée Dayan, Gilles Taurand, Marguerite Duras, Yann Andréa
• Producers: Alain Sarde, Christine Gozlan
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: New Yorker Video
• DVD Release Date: November 15, 2005
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000B5XP06
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #94,185 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Cet Amour-La" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

From The New Yorker

At the age of sixty-six, during a fallow period of her working life, the novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and director Marguerite Duras (Jeanne Moreau) takes as a lover a twenty-eight-year-old philosophy student and admirer, Yann Andréa (Aymeric Demarigny), who has been writing her fan letters for five years. As they live together, she dictates to him and drinks, and exercises the French art of making arbitrary declarations. "Bathtubs scare me," she says. But she might just as well have said, "Rattan furniture scares me." The only point of such remarks is that she exhibits the will to make them. As writer-director Josée Dayan imagines her, Duras is a dazzling intellectual star in the French diva-oracle tradition, and her continuous self-assertion is a miracle. But in this movie Duras comes off as a sibyl without vision. And poor Andréa comes off as a nothing. He is not an intellectual companion, and Duras does not look at his naked body with desire. If you're going to make a movie about sadomasochism, you had better make it funny or dirty. But "Cet Amour-Lˆ" is watery and sentimental and (perhaps unconsciously) cruel. In French. -David Denby
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jeanne in her Glory, March 10, 2006

By	Randy Buck (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)    (VINE VOICE)

Rather a Gallic cross between CAPOTE and HAROLD AND MAUDE, here's the story of the last love affair of literary lioness Marguerite Duras and the decades-younger object of her affection. Duras was surely one of the most self-absorbed icons of the 20th century -- difficult to avoid feeling she ever had a random encounter that wasn't fodder for a novel, film or essay -- but Dayan's intelligent screenplay and sure direction offer a superb opportunity for an actress of a certain age, and Moreau seizes it with both hands. Her ability to fascinate has not dimmed a whit with the passage of time, and it's glorious to see an actress looking her years and yet still radiantly beautiful. Would make a fascinating evening's viewing alongside THE LOVER. Recommended.