Baxter, Vera Baxter

The film is a "hypnotically unsettling journey into one woman’s existential emptiness. Ensconced in a sprawling rental villa, the world-weary Vera Baxter (Gabay) receives visits from two women, including a mysterious stranger (Seyrig) to whom she recounts a shocking story about her marriage, the way she lives, and the reasons for her malaise." Vera Baxter is "a harsh take on bourgeois conformity and prostitution," or, in Duras’s words, “an infernal circuit that shuttles her from the love of her children to her conjugal duties.”