Pornotropic
Original title: Pornotropic : Marguerite Duras et l'illusion coloniale
7.0(6)202053mFR
Directed by Nathalie Masduraud
When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Meanwhile, in Indochina, France was suffering its first military defeats in its war against the Việt Minh, the rebel movement for independence.
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based on novel or bookracismforced prostitutionwoman directorfrench colonialism1950swhite supremacyportrait of an artistindochina warfrench writer
