Nathalie Granger

With little or no embellishment, Marguerite Duras offers a simple, often wordless chronicle of a woman’s day. In a pretty house in the Yvelines, on the banks of a large pond, live Isabelle Granger (Lucia Bosè), her husband, their two young daughters, Laurence and Nathalie, another woman (played by Duras’s lifelong friend, Jeanne Moreau) and a black cat. One devotes herself to housework and gardening, and attends the children’s piano lessons. The other, Mrs. Granger, worries about the future of her daughter Nathalie, and her ‘uncommon violence.’ Will Nathalie agree to be a boarder and take music lessons? Only a transistor radio, narrating the misdeeds of two young killers, breaks the silence that haunts the house. It is then that a salesman (Gérard Depardieu) bursts on the scene…