Marguerite Duras Movies

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

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

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

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

Report on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles, press clippings, questions about the...

X, a film location scout, spend his time travelling from place to place looking for filming locations, at the same time that he's looking for funding...

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

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...

Based on the letters of a fictitious poetess to her lover. Duras reads extracts from these letters, as the film shows a boat journey down the Seine,...

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

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

Le Navire Night is a story of love and desire sustained and nourished through sound waves. The film’s voice-over tells the story of a woman,...

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...

Broadcast once a month, Dim Dam Dom was a TV variety show on the second channel of French public television agency ORTF made up of a series of short...

Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed...

The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

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

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...

A long interview between Marguerite Duras and Benoît Jacquot on the subject of writing and of solitude, at the country house where Marguerite...