Marguerite Duras Movies

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...

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

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

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first...

In this episode of Dim Dam Dom, Duras interviews the stripper Lolo Pigalle. A clip of Lolo dancing in a golden dress is followed by an intense and...

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

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...

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,...

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

Marguerite Duras.is interviewed twice, first in 1984 and then in 1993, on her life and work as a writer and filmmaker.

A woman watches and speaks to a man as he moves through a house by the sea. She observes his presence and tracks his shifting distance from her.

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

Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many...

From the deserted halls and corridors of the Gaumont-Palace cinema in Paris, memories of the great films that inhabited it before its demolition...

Based on the letters of a fictitious poetess to her lover. Duras reads extracts from the letters, about the poetess’s Jewish past, while the...

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

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

Duras interviews an exhausted Jeanne Moreau, addressing her friend as vous, despite the fact "the two were close friends for many years, living in...