Marguerite Duras Mr. Ondesma's Afternoon

Author: Wang Daqian
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: It's somewhat like Ravel's ballet "Bolero," with two tones of sound coming and going, cycling back and forth, hesitating to speak, endless and boundless. It truly deserves to be called a poetic piece with deep surrealistic meaning. — Reviewer Liu Enbo
I've always told Margaret, "If you have a work I want to adapt into a film, it's 'The Afternoon of Monsieur Andromache.'" She replied, "If I haven't filmed it, you can do it after I'm gone." This is a film she wanted to make. — Film Director Michel Porter.
On a summer afternoon, the eighty-year-old Monsieur Andromache waits for the terrace contractor to arrive at the newly purchased house for his beloved only daughter on the mountain. The protagonist's memories of the past, his fluctuating thoughts, and the interplay of light and shadow in the mountains create a melancholic atmosphere, foreshadowing the shadowed prospects of an aging, wealthy man.