Written by Claire Simon, based upon Yann Andréa’s Je voudrais parler de Duras, the story takes us back to 1982. Yann Andréa and Marguerite Duras have been living together for two years. Yann asks Michèle Manceaux to interview him about his life with Duras and the passion which now binds them together for better or for worse, both entrancing and maddening…

First observational and later hugely personal, Claire Simon’s film is an example of the sheer power of documentary cinema. With a gaze full of tenderness, she explores a gynaecological clinic in Paris to ascertain what it means to live in a female body.