Baxter, Vera Baxter

In a searingly intimate drama, French director Marguerite Duras invites viewers into the isolated world of Vera Baxter, a woman whose life has become a labyrinthine tale of love, betrayal, and self-discovery. As she recounts her story to an inquiring stranger, we witness the slow unraveling of a web of deceit and disillusionment that has entwined her relationships with two men: her cheating husband and a new love affair that threatens to upend her very existence. Set against the backdrop of a sprawling villa on the French coast, this hypnotically unsettling film is a scathing critique of bourgeois conformity and the societal expectations that suffocate individual freedom.