The Long Absence(Une aussi longue absence)

When a singing vagrant wanders past her Parisian bar, proprietor Thérèse is hit with a shock of familiarity. Soon she’s following the mystery man to his riverside shack and scoping him out. Could this man, apparently suffering from amnesia, be her long-lost husband Albert? Editor Colpi won the Cannes Palme d’Or with his first film as director that dwells on forgetting and being forgotten, and the hand of co-writer Duras leaves fingerprints all over. Albert’s backstory of being seized and deported by the Nazis echoes the experience of Duras’ first husband, and once more her work examines the cruelty and pain of onesided devotion.

Cannes Film Festival: Palme d'Or

17/5(Sun): Film Talk with Long Tin