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Memoir of War is French writer.director Emmanuel Finkiel’s adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ semi-autobiographical novella La douleur. An essential work in the literature of war, La douleur reveals Duras personal anguish as she survived in Nazi-occupied Paris, waiting for the return of her husband who’d been arrested by the Gestapo.
War is hell. It’s also tedious, especially for those on the home front who spend anxious hours waiting for news, for letters, for loved ones to return home. Memoir of War recounts the pain famed French writer Marguerite Duras endured waiting for her husband to return from a Nazi concentration camp.
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