The Malady of Death

Synopsis

In the space of a short 65 minutes, a woman enters the luxury apartment of a wealthy man with an eccentric fascination for the female form and is paid both for her sexual favors and for lying there naked and letting him examine the aesthetics of her body. For most of the hour, as the concise narration of Marguerite Duras' novel on eroticism and aesthetics fills the aural gaps, actress Marie Colbin's form fills the visual gaps. But unless viewers consider the feminine eyeball or microscopic views of skin exotic and worth lingering over, the eroticism lies more in the imagination than on the screen. In fact, the female body lying on the bed, taken away from the spirit that animates it, is really just a corpse -- raising the question, exactly what is the "malady of death?"

Main Cast

Marie Colbin

the anonymous woman

Age : 66 | Popularity : 5%

Peter Handke

the narrator

Age : 81 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Screenplay	Peter Handke
	Novel	Marguerite Duras
Directing	Director	Peter Handke
Camera	Director of Photography	Xaver Schwarzenberger
Editing	Editor	Marie Homolkova
Sound	Original Music Composer	Sambuca Nigra
	Sound	Folkert Prestin
Art	Art Direction	Andrea Jaufer
	Set Designer	Kurt Rosner
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