Marguerite Duras Movies

She was the sort of woman who spared neither herself nor others—and arguably qualifies as 20th-century France’s greatest femme de...

Marin Karmitz's avant-garde short film is a haunting tale about an alcoholic novelist facing a crippling case of writer's block.

Reflections (in voice-over) by Marguerite DURAS on toys "the most beautiful are those you see behind the window", children's relationship with toys,...

Stages a double persona on a music of Monteverdi (Ariadne’s lamento interpreted by Janet Baker).

An old lady returns from Africa where she made a fortune to find her son in Paris, whom she has not seen in five years, with the intention of...

Based on M.Diuras' play.

On June 3, 1991, Marguerite Duras gave me her last published work, "The North China Lover", autographed for the first time. She wrote: "For my friend...

On images of the Tuileries Gardens, Marguerite Duras recalls Césarée, an ancient destroyed city.

The film tries to retain the memory, the compulsion and the nostalgia of a text by Marguerite Duras.

Duras narrates a short story while the camera travels through the streets of Paris with short interludes of solemn music.

This afterword to India Song (Duras' celebrated 1975 film) is organized in several parts. It begins with an interview to Marguerite Duras by...

X, a film location scout, spend his time travelling from place to place looking for filming locations, at the same time that he's looking for funding...

Report on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles, press clippings, questions about the...

Korytkowska and Hatłas's essay, blurring the boundaries between cinema and literature, is a universal story about the difficulty and the...

The whole film takes place in a single room where representatives of the two political forces and their enemy "the Jew" are gathered. A female...

25 years ago, Marguerite Duras passed away at the age of 81. At the evocation of this name, one spontaneously thinks of the intellectual superstar...

In the space of a short 65 minutes, a woman enters the luxury apartment of a wealthy man with an eccentric fascination for the female form and is...

In this interview with Dominique Noguez, Marguerite Duras talks successively about each of her four short films made in 1979: Césarée,...

Two lonely people meet on a park bench and talk about their lives.