Two Films by Marguerite Duras (#1172) Luchino Visconti PRETTY SALLY MAE DIED A

PRETTY SALLY MAE DIED A VERY UNNATURAL DEATH

Katie Featherston

Patricia Medina co-star

the camera pans over a room filled with clocks

In the not too distant future

Two Films by Marguerite Duras (#1172) Luchino Visconti PRETTY SALLY MAE DIED AMarguerite Duras had already established herself as one of the major figures of postwar French literature when she launched an equally fascinating and unclassifiable career in cinema, translating her elliptical, experimental style to the screen through an unprecedented fusion of hypnotic, highly stylized imagery and radically disjunctive sound. Boldly reimagining the possibilities of dialogue, music, silence, and architectural space, the tantalizing,