MONSTRES SACRES.(Cet Amour-La)(Movie Review)

In "Cet Amour-La,"we first see him on the beach: a tall, slender, mild-looking young man in a white suit, with a pursy little mouth and the dead eyes of a depressive. He calls her up and goes to her apartment. She lets him in. Then she changes her mind; she is brisk and insulting, glaring at him in indignation. Finally, she allows him to stay, but strictly on her terms: he will listen to her words; he will type her manuscripts; he will let her drink. And so the scandalous affair begins. In 1980, at the age of sixty-six, during a fallow period of her working life, the novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and director Marguerite Duras took as a lover a twenty-eight-year-old ...