Marguerite Duras Movies

From the deserted halls and corridors of the Gaumont-Palace cinema in Paris, memories of the great films that inhabited it before its demolition...

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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.