Marguerite Duras Movies

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

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.

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...

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,...

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

A documentary about filmmaker Marguerite Duras.

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

The movie "L'instant de la paix" consists of three segments: 1. "Les rideaux blancs" (France) 2. "Berlin N 65" (West Germany) 3. "Matura" (Poland)

Marguerite Duras still has much to tell us about her words and about her silences. In this film, hers is the only voice we hear. She talks about...

25 years ago, Marguerite Duras passed away at the age of 81. At the evocation of this name, one spontaneously thinks of the intellectual superstar...

Conversation between a woman (Duras) and a man (D. Noguez) about a woman and a man.

Traces a slow advance through Paris in the early hours of the morning. The deserted boulevards of Paris are punctuated by interspersed groups of...

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)

‘Mulher a Mulher’ is a Portuguese TV show dedicated to the condition of women that aims to demystify gender prejudice. Its last programme...

Marin Karmitz's avant-garde short film is a haunting tale about an alcoholic novelist facing a crippling case of writer's block.

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...

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

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

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