Marguerite Duras Movies

A woman watches and speaks to a man as he moves through a house by the sea. She observes his presence and tracks his shifting distance from her.

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...

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...

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

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

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

Ten years after their first meeting, John Marcher and May Bartram meet again in the magnificent Weatherend estate, but, as the first time, John's...

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

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...

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

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

On images of the Tuileries Gardens, Marguerite Duras recalls Césarée, an ancient destroyed city.

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...

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...

By the sea, a brother and sister face each other in the villa where they grew up. They haven't seen each other in a long time, and they meet again...

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...

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...

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...