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Baxter, Vera Baxter (1977)

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Baxter, Vera Baxter

Marguerite Duras | France | 1977 | Unclassified (15+)
Film

When

Wed 25 Jun 2025

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A woman (Claudine Gabay) languishes in a sprawling villa where she is visited by several guests. In a truly formidable performance, Seyrig’s unnamed visitor acts as Duras’ envoy, her role and dialogue representing the author’s own disruptive feminism and compassionate existentialism.

Drawing on elements from her earlier play Suzanna Adler, and adapted from a then-unpublished novel, this “harsh take on bourgeois conformity and prostitution” (Ivone Margulies) is accompanied by Carlos D’Alessio’s hypnotic score. With Noëlle Châtelet and Gérard Depardieu.

Format: DCP
Language: French with English subtitles
Source: Tamasa
Courtesy: Tamasa
Runtime: 95 mins

Event duration

95 mins

Rating

Unclassified (15+)

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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