Marguerite Duras Movies

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...

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

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)

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,...

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...

'The subject of this film is the conversation between a man and a woman. A couple, maybe lovers, maybe married, it doesn't matter. (...) During this...

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...

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

Franck and Hélène meet in Deauville and decide to get married instantly. A year passes. Their conversation, over the seasons, questions...

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...

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

Marin Karmitz's avant-garde short film is a haunting tale about an alcoholic novelist facing a crippling case of writer's block.

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.

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

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.

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,...

Stages a double persona on a music of Monteverdi (Ariadne’s lamento interpreted by Janet Baker).