Marguerite Duras Movies

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....

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

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...

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

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...

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...

A documentary about filmmaker Marguerite Duras.

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

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

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...

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...

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

Here Duras assumes a more distant role, less an interviewer than an invested documentarian. Her questions precede footage of her main subject, the...

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...

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

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

Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had...

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

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

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...