Let Cinema Go To Its Ruin:
The Cinema of Marguerite Duras
Jaune le soleil
In the town of Staadt, which is run by capitalists by day and Stalinists by night, David and Sabana have been tasked with guarding “the Jew”: a man set to be executed as soon as the Stalinist night falls. Jaune le soleil is, in Duras’s words, “a film about language”, in which “the purpose of the image is to carry the word”.