La Bte dans la jungle (1990) Benot Jacquot

Screenplay : Marguerite Duras (from his play), Henry James (from his novel ’The Beast of the Jungle’) and James Lord (from his play) With Delphine Seyrig and Sami Frey. Ten years after their first meeting, John Marcher and May Bartram find themselves in the beautiful home of Weatherend but, like the first time, the certainty of John to be doomed to a tragic fate is an obstacle to their feelings the for each other. This Henry James novel’s was adapted for the stage by Marguerite Duras.