Duras film: Agatha et les lectures illimitées

Extract from Agatha et les lectures illimitées, a film by Marguerite Duras from 1981

— I believed to know everything, everything.
— Yes.
— To have foreseen everything. Everything. Everything that could happen between you and me.
— Yes.
— I believed to have considered everything, everything.
— Pain? No. That is never possible.
— Right. Never. We think we know it, like ourselves. And then, no. Each time it returns. Each time, miraculous.
— Each time we don’t know anything any more. Each time.

This film was recorded in Trouville-sur-Mer, in the lobby of the building where Duras lived. She reads the female part of the text and her much younger lover, Yann Andréa, reads the male part.

The dry way of saying the words that express such passionate feelings has inspired much of the tone of Bientôt l’été. Not to mention the views of the sea, and the atmosphere of an abandoned resort town.