Nuit noire, Calcutta. 1964. Directed by Marin Karmitz L’amour à la mer. 1964. Written and directed by Guy Gilles

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L’amour à la mer. 1964. France. Directed by Guy Gilles. Courtesy Lobster Films

Nuit noire, Calcutta. 1964. France. Directed by Marin Karmitz. Screenplay by Marguerite Duras. With Maurice Garrel, Natasha Parry, Nicole Hiss. 35mm. In French; English subtitles. 24 min.

Haunted by alcohol, loneliness, the difficulty of loving, and what mattered most—writing—Marguerite Duras infused this visual poem with a sense of anxiety and searching. Directed by the future producer, businessman, and art collector Marin Karmitz, Nuit noire, Calcutta is distinguished by Maurice Garrel’s performance, at once physical and ghostly, making palpable Duras’s disarming tale set along the Ganges in India (though filmed in Normandy). Courtesy MK2

L’amour à la mer. 1964. France. Written and directed by Guy Gilles. With Daniel Moosmann, Geneviève Thénier, Josette Krieff. DCP. In French; English subtitles. 73 min.

Alain Delon, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliette Gréco, and Jean-Claude Brialy make short appearances in this first feature film by a director with a unique and unjustly overlooked career. Under the guise of an ordinary love story, L’amour à la mer finds a way to evoke myriad aspects of life—including war. Guy Gilles freely and jubilantly uses popular songs, voiceovers, photographs, flashbacks, and musical editing with an inventiveness that seems to have barely aged. Digital restoration courtesy Lobster Films

This film accompanies Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave.

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