Marguerite Duras retrospective at ICA London explores cinema's relationship to literature and politics

London's ICA is hosting a retrospective titled Let Cinema Go To Its Ruin, which will be available until 25 August. This exhibition features 19 films that were co-directed by Marguerite Duras, along with various interpretations of her work. Curator Daniella Shreir emphasizes Duras’s historical background, mentioning her birth in Gia Định, French Indochina, in 1914 and her relocation to Paris at the age of nineteen. Duras endured the Nazi occupation, collaborated with the Vichy regime, and was involved in the French Resistance; her husband, Robert Antelme, was deported in 1944. Although she joined and later departed from the French Communist Party, she stated in a 1991 interview with The New York Times that she still identified as a Communist. The showcase features films such as Destroy, She Said (1969) and wraps up with her last film, Les Enfants (1984).