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Memoir of War

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Memoir of War

Released Aug 17, 2018

2h 7m

History

Drama

War

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Desperate for news of her husband, who has been arrested by the Germans, a writer and resistant enters into a high-risk game of psychological cat and mouse with a Nazi collaborator.

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Memoir of War benefits from a magnetic performance by Mélanie Thierry, whose work is often enough to counter some of the film's fundamental flaws.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

La Douleur? Oui. Et les longueurs!

Rated: 2/5

May 28, 2019

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Cath Clarke

Guardian

Duras's soul-stripping words are here, but little thought appears to have gone into translating them for cinema.

Rated: 2/5

May 22, 2019

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David Jenkins

Little White Lies

Buoyed by an astonishing central turn by Mélanie Thierry.

Rated: 3/5

May 22, 2019

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Betsy Bozdech

AWFJ.org

Featuring a gripping, emotional performance from star Melanie Thierry as Marguerite Duras, Emmanuel Finkiel's adaptation of Duras' semi-autobiographical WWII novel is intense and haunting.

Oct 11, 2021

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Jennifer Merin

AWFJ.org

The film is an admirable adaptation. Women have great stories to tell on screen.

Oct 11, 2021

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

It's a strong film addressing a common yet seldom dramatized wartime experience...

Oct 15, 2020

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Joe M

The journey love makes. What it leaves in the shadows is the true beauty of our being. Being in her mind we see the nakedness of loss. Sacredness and pain. For a moment, we are all one. Merci beaucoup !

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/13/25

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Audience Member

I want to see that movie

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/01/19

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This is not a movie where you sit back and eat popcorn. It really is painful, not only for the story line but as the movie goer. When we look back in history, a year doesn't seem so long but when you are waiting for someone to return from a war prison, it truly is forever. This movie portrays the decline that happens over time as one waits in hope and fear. War is just bad and this is another example of the many lives that get destroyed, not only the victims.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Synopsis

Desperate for news of her husband, who has been arrested by the Germans, a writer and resistant enters into a high-risk game of psychological cat and mouse with a Nazi collaborator.

Director: Emmanuel Finkiel
Producer: Laetitia Gonzalez, Yaël Fogiel, Michel Merkt, Vincent Roget
Screenwriter: Emmanuel Finkiel, Marguerite Duras
Distributor: Music Box Films
Production Co: Proximus, KNM, Cinéfrance, Les Films du Poisson, Need Productions, France 3 Cinéma, Same Player, Versus Production
Genre: History, Drama, War
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 17, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 18, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $102.6K
Runtime: 2h 7m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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