Marguerite Duras Movies

'The subject of this film is the conversation between a man and a woman. A couple, maybe lovers, maybe married, it doesn't matter. (...) During this...

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...

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

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

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...

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)

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

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

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...

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...

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

Franck and Hélène meet in Deauville and decide to get married instantly. A year passes. Their conversation, over the seasons, questions...

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...

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...

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

Duras, ever the challenging interviewer, forensically questions a Parisian zookeeper regarding the happiness of the animals in his charge. Intercut...

A documentary about filmmaker Marguerite Duras.

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...