Marguerite Duras Movies

Le Navire Night is a story of love and desire sustained and nourished through sound waves. The film’s voice-over tells the story of a woman,...

On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and...

When everything was ready for my death, I began to write of what I know precisely, which you’ve never understood, knowing you would never...

A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.

Drama of an unmarried mother who regrets having had her child fostered and fights its foster parents to have it restored to her.

The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new...

An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of the most idolized French movie stars.

Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many...

When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt....

Ernesto, a seven-year-old boy who has the body of a thirty-year-old man, decides, upon attending his first day of school, that he no longer wishes to...

The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

A husband and wife meet three years after their formal separation, when they return to the provincial town where they once lived to pick up their...

A documentary, originally produced in 1966 for the French TV series "Pour le plaisir," about Robert Bresson's film "Au Hasard Balthazar," featuring...

With little or no embellishment, filmmaker Marguerite Duras offers a simple, often wordless chronicle of a woman's day. She and her friend are seen...

Set mostly in the woods in the south of France, a fateful encounter changes the lives of a man and a woman.

Pierre and Maria, a Parisian couple, travel to Spain with their daughter and her friend. When a violent storm hits they must settle for the night in...

Luc Lagier puts Alain Resnais' film back in its historical context and in the filmmaker's biography. He tells the story, then the development of what...

About the Gabriel Matzneff affair and pedophilia in French culture and society from the 1950s to the present day. "It was not very difficult to know...