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Yann Lemée

was a young homosexual fascinated by

Marguerite Duras

who one day approached her after the screening of one of her films and asked for her direction. For five years, he sent her letters on a regular basis, without her, 38 years older, ever replying. When he got tired, Duras contacted him,

de-homosexualized him

and made him his lover and

muse

. And not only that: the writer and filmmaker changed his name to

Yann Andréa

and turned his life into a hell of insults, assaults and humiliations.

They were together until her death, in 1996. He died in 2014, in the mansion that

the author of

The Lover

and

The Impudicia left him

. He was also his' executor 'and zealously protected his work, to the point of

paralyzing a cookbook that Duras' son wanted to publish.

The quotation marks in 'executor' come from the fact that in France there is no such legal figure, so in reality it would be necessary to speak of responsible for the moral rights of his work, while the son inherited the economic rights.

Despite this legacy that Duras left him, Yann Andrèa let off steam in 1992 during an interview with her friend, the journalist

Michèle Manceaux

. The tapes were hidden until the death of both. Then his sister transcribed them and published them in book form. Now, the filmmaker

Claire Simon

recovers that story in

Vous ne désirez que moi

(translated as

I want to talk about Duras

)

, which competes in the official section of the San Sebastián Film Festival.

Without ever appearing on screen, everything in this film revolves around the

Hiroshima

screenwriter

mon amour.

Especially her cruelty and ability to manipulate her lover.

At one point, he confesses,

"I wanted to buy her flowers. And he said, 'No. It's not over. Don't be a

groupie

. He was tough, after all."

Duras stripped Andrèa of everything, especially her most intimate being, her original sexuality.

In the film, some drawings reproduce the interactions that both had in bed.

"All men are potential homosexuals, they just need to know it," she scoffed in an interview.

Yann was the protagonist of one of Duras's last novels,

Yann Andréa Steiner.

The latter, for his part, offered his vision of the relationship in a book,

Cet Amour-là

, which the filmmaker Josée Dayan brought to the cinema in 2001 with

Jeanne Moureau in the role of Marguerite Duras

and Aymeric Demarigny in that of Yann Andrèa.

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