Marguerite Duras Movies

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

The film centers on a young French widow and her two adolescent children as they attempt to carve out a meager life for themselves by farming rice...

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....

Duras narrates a short story while the camera travels through the streets of Paris with short interludes of solemn music.

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...

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...

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.

Accompanied by her lover, Suzanna, 40, views a Riviera beach house for her family's summer vacation. This day, this break in her routine, in this new...

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

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

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)

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

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

In a secluded hotel circumscribed by a dense forest Max and Alissa Thor meet Stein and Elisabeth. Max, a professor of future history and an aspiring...

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

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...

When everything was ready for my death, I began to write of what I know precisely, which you’ve never understood, knowing you would never...

Based on M.Diuras' play.