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A versatile director whose best-known films include A Foreign Body and film school documentary The CompetitionSimon should attract considerable attention for an involving, insightful piece that will inevitably be of niche appeal, but may nevertheless resonate beyond French literary coteries and Duras obsessives.

A former philosophy student, he became obsessively fascinated with her writing at the age of 22, wrote to her over six or seven years and — when they finally met — moved in with her and became the lover of a woman 48 years his senior.

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Meanwhile, although her role might ostensibly seem thankless, Devos makes Manceaux very much a presence, with the journalist asking very few questions, giving occasional prompts, and generally functioning like a near-silent therapist. International sales: Luxbox info luxboxfilms.

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