Marguerite Duras Movies

It’s summer, the heat is overwhelming and the weather is out of whack. A group of friends are enjoying their yearly holiday in their favorite...

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...

In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers...

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

The Malady of Death is an adaptation of Marguerite Duras's story of the same name: her text comprises the voiceover, which is a particular reading of...

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

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...

In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was drawn to the villa when she heard the name Vera...

A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.

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

A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he...

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

On December 2, 1987, the filmmaker visited the novelist at her home in Paris. This meeting gave rise to this hour-long documentary in which JLG and...

Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life.

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...

In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They...

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