Let Cinema Go To Its Ruin:
The Cinema of Marguerite Duras
Baxter, Vera Baxter
This portrait of Vera Baxter (Claudine Gabay) – an affectless bourgeois woman, and (as an ever-surprising Durassian voiceover tells us) witch – unfolds in an isolated modernist villa, bordering a forest. Her situation is revealed through the visits of two women, a former mistress of her husband (Noëlle Châtelet), and an unnamed woman (Delphine Seyrig), who coaxes her out of her silence.