A desperate writer in Nazi-occupied France forges an unsettling alliance with an enemy collaborator in search of her missing husband in this elegant adaptation of the semi-autobiographical novel from Marguerite Duras, famed screenwriter of Hiroshima, Mon Amour. France's official Oscar® entry takes us to 1944, near the end of a war filled with pain and uncertainty. Marguerite (Melanie Thierry in a stunning portrayal of resolute strength and haunting magnetism) is a promising young writer devoted to the resistance with her husband Robert. When the Gestapo deports him to an unknown location, she becomes determined to find him at all costs, leading her down a path of incredible risk and terrible hardship as she becomes hopelessly entangled in a game of intrigue with a local Vichy supporter. Director Emanuel Finkiel sumptuously navigates the heart of this complex story with a steady hand, achieving an elegiac ode to enduring love in times of great struggle. In competition for the FIPRESCI award.

In competition for the FIPRESCI Award.

Director Emmanuel Finkiel