Marguerite Duras Filmes

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)

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

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...

A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he...

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...

Therese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes...

A documentary, originally produced in 1966 for the French TV series "Pour le plaisir," about Robert Bresson's film "Au Hasard Balthazar," featuring...

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...

Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor.

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

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

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.

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

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,...

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...

In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script....

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)

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...

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