Pornotropic (2020)

09/30/2020 (FR) • 53m

Documentary, History

Overview

When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Meanwhile, in Indochina, France was suffering its first military defeats in its war against the Việt Minh, the rebel movement for independence.

Top Billed Cast

Romane Bohringer

Self - Reader

Ann Laura Stoler

Self- Anthropologist

Françoise Vergès

Self - Politologist

Alain Ruscio

Self - Historian

Marguerite Duras

Self - Writer (archive footage)


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Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

based on novel or book

racism

forced prostitution

woman director

french colonialism

1950s

white supremacy

portrait of an artist

indochina war

french writer

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