L'Amante anglaise - Emilie Charriot

One night, Amélie Rabilloud smashes her husband's skull with a hammer. She dismembered the body and every night threw a piece of it off a viaduct onto freight trains. Marguerite Duras drew inspiration from this incident to write L'Amante anglaise. Under her pen, fiction twists reality. In Duras' work, Claire Lannes murders the deaf and mute cousin who lives with her and her husband. The couple, mired in an austere daily routine, withers irreversibly. Between the four walls of a too-clean house, the muted presence of the other becomes unbearable and raises questions about the possibility of murder within us. Who has never killed in their mind? Why does Claire Lannes murder her cousin rather than her troublesome husband? An interrogator tries to understand this surprisingly brutal crime. His confrontation with the suspect gives rise to an elliptical narrative that operates with almost clinical precision. With an exceptional cast including Nicolas Bouchaud, Laurent Poitreneaux and Dominique Reymond, Émilie Charriot's direction leaps into the void, leaving the field open to savagery, mystery and intimacy.