Marguerite Duras Movies

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

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...

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....

During this strange and confrontational interview, Duras takes on France’s only female prison warden. In the women’s verbal wrangling we...

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...

By the sea, a brother and sister face each other in the villa where they grew up. They haven't seen each other in a long time, and they meet again...

Ten years after their first meeting, John Marcher and May Bartram meet again in the magnificent Weatherend estate, but, as the first time, John's...

Traces a slow advance through Paris in the early hours of the morning. The deserted boulevards of Paris are punctuated by interspersed groups of...

Her whole childhood, Marguerite Duras spent her time moving. Her house in Neauphle-le-Château is the one she has lived in the most, and the one...

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

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...

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

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

In a secluded hotel circumscribed by a dense forest Max and Alissa Thor meet Stein and Elisabeth. Max, a professor of future history and an aspiring...

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

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

Conversation between a woman (Duras) and a man (D. Noguez) about a woman and a man.

In this episode of Dim Dam Dom, Duras interviews the stripper Lolo Pigalle. A clip of Lolo dancing in a golden dress is followed by an intense and...

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

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