He is not an intellectual companion, and Duras does not look at his naked body with desire.

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All this dialogue is taken from the works of Marguerite Duras, and leads to conversations often nonsensical and occasionally extremely poignant.

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But in this movie Duras comes off as a sibyl without vision.

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As most people like their reading matter to be easily comprehensible, Mr Lindon's stable of such writers as Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras and Claude Simon tended to be admired more by literary critics than by the public.

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