Marguerite Duras Movies

20-year-old Joseph and his 16-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother....

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

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

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 young woman, who works as a maid for a living, takes her charge out to play in a Parisian garden square. Sitting on a bench, she starts talking to...

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

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

During this strange and confrontational interview, Duras takes on France’s only female prison warden. In the women’s verbal wrangling we...

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

A man and his sister meet at a seaside village to discuss their relationship.

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...

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

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

When Duras saw 'La mort du jeune aviateur anglais', she told Benoît Jacquot that the film was about him, not her. "She treated me like a thief....