Marguerite Duras Movies

An alcoholic married man discovers he has fallen out of love with his moody wife.

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

Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor.

A man and his sister meet at a seaside village to discuss their relationship.

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....

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

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...

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...

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

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...

In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script....

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...

The movie "L'instant de la paix" consists of three segments: 1. "Les rideaux blancs" (France) 2. "Berlin N 65" (West Germany) 3. "Matura" (Poland)

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn to them (in short one minute segments per image)