Marguerite Duras Movies

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...

Marguerite Duras tells the story of the death of a young English aviator in a French village.

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....

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

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...

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,...

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

Her whole childhood, Marguerite Duras spent her time moving. Her house in Neauphle-le-Château is the one she has lived in the most, and the one...

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

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

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

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

In the space of a short 65 minutes, a woman enters the luxury apartment of a wealthy man with an eccentric fascination for the female form and is...

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

The Malady of Death is an adaptation of Marguerite Duras's story of the same name: her text comprises the voiceover, which is a particular reading of...

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

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

A documentary about filmmaker Marguerite Duras.

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...