Director: Marguerite Duras
Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Noëlle Châtelet, Claudine Gabay, Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Nell,
Plot: In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was drawn to the villa when she heard the name Vera Baxter pronounced. Vera tells her about her no-good husband, who has been using her to keep his failing business afloat, up to her present love affair.
Two Films by Marguerite Duras: Criterion Blu-ray review
Criterion has released a two-disk set of Marguerite Duras’ mid-’70s features India Song (1975) and Baxter, Vera Baxter (1977), highlighting the novelist’s idiosyncratic approach to cinema, particularly striking in the separation […]