The film is a long letter whose recipient is unknown. The camera and the text of the letter follow the river, the Seine and the bridges of Paris shot against the light, upside down with the dark silhouettes of obscure people, passers-by, anonymous. The text, the film, like this river, advance (as the road in "Le Camion" was the film itself) through the ancient city, surrounded by cliffs and platforms. Behind the water and the stones are buried the small and the great story, love, death. The voice tells of a starving cat in a garden, of the death camps in the German Poland. The film, the text is for all of us. It is a total and universal love letter from a Jewish girl, romantic and determined (such as Stein in "Détruire dit-elle"), who speaks, writes, far far away, from Melbourne, so far away from the mass graves of Poland. "This is a void in the middle of the river picture. There remains nothing but that road there. The river. It is through this thin and crazy cat, now dead, through this motionless garden around it that I reach you." Marguerite Duras
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