Marguerite Duras Filmes

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.

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)

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

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

Based on M.Diuras' play.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Luc Lagier puts Alain Resnais' film back in its historical context and in the filmmaker's biography. He tells the story, then the development of what...

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

On June 3, 1991, Marguerite Duras gave me her last published work, "The North China Lover", autographed for the first time. She wrote: "For my friend...

When Duras saw 'La mort du jeune aviateur anglais', she told Benoît Jacquot that the film was about him, not her. "She treated me like a thief....