By Dina Pokrajac

Dialogues between Marguerite Duras and Jean-Luc Godard represent a starting point and a useful landmark for a true evaluation of the relationship between the written word and the image. In one interview from 1997, Godard said that he knew Duras “for two or three years”, evoking the title of his film Two or Three Things I Know about Her. Godard and Duras were meeting for a few years to discuss the subject of their interest: a radical dichotomy between image and sound, portraying the unportrayable (such as concentration camps and incest), as well as childhood and television.