Marguerite Duras Movies

An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of the most idolized French movie stars.

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

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

Accompanied by her lover, Suzanna, 40, views a Riviera beach house for her family's summer vacation. This day, this break in her routine, in this new...

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

Pierre and Maria, a Parisian couple, travel to Spain with their daughter and her friend. When a violent storm hits they must settle for the night in...

Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many...

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

A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.

When everything was ready for my death, I began to write of what I know precisely, which you’ve never understood, knowing you would never...

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

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,...

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

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

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

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

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)

With little or no embellishment, filmmaker Marguerite Duras offers a simple, often wordless chronicle of a woman's day. She and her friend are seen...

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

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....