Le Navire Night

While checking out a disused line, a Paris phone company employee (Mathieu Carrière) strikes up a party line chat with a mysterious woman (Dominique Sanda). This tentative contact stretches into a long relationship that expands in profound intimacy, although their attempts to meet face to face founder through cruel fate. Challenging avant-garde effort from writer/director Marguerite Duras also stars Bulle Ogier; Duras and Benoît Jacquot narrate. 90 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: French; Subtitles: English. In French with English subtitles.