L'homme atlantique.In 1981, coinciding with the release of Marguerite Duras’s seventeenth film, L’homme atlantique, Le Monde published a short text—“a warning”—by the writer and filmmaker: It has become customary for the majority of cinemagoers in France to act as though cinema is something that is owed to them, to protest and scream bloody murder at the appearance of films that weren’t made for them alone. Therefore, I would like to tell these viewers not to step foot in the cinema that is screening "L’homme atlantique," that there is no use in doing so because the film was made in total ignorance of their existence.Later that year, in an interview conducted by Anne de Gasperi, Duras doubled down on her exclusionary rhetoric. “My cinema is not made for people who love cinema. I didn’t think about those people for a second,” she said.
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