Marguerite Duras Movies

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

When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt....

A frail old woman meets a middle-aged man - her estranged son, whom she hasn't seen for five years.

Ernesto, a seven-year-old boy who has the body of a thirty-year-old man, decides, upon attending his first day of school, that he no longer wishes to...

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

On June 3, 1991, Marguerite Duras gave me her last published work, "The North China Lover", autographed for the first time. She wrote: "For my friend...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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