Marguerite Duras Movies

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....

An alcoholic married man discovers he has fallen out of love with his moody wife.

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

The Malady of Death is an adaptation of Marguerite Duras's story of the same name: her text comprises the voiceover, which is a particular reading of...

In this interview with Dominique Noguez, Marguerite Duras talks successively about each of her four short films made in 1979: Césarée,...

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...

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

The film tries to retain the memory, the compulsion and the nostalgia of a text by Marguerite Duras.

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...

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...

In the space of a short 65 minutes, a woman enters the luxury apartment of a wealthy man with an eccentric fascination for the female form and is...

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...

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)

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...

She was the sort of woman who spared neither herself nor others—and arguably qualifies as 20th-century France’s greatest femme de...

Based on the letters of a fictitious poetess to her lover. Duras reads extracts from the letters, about the poetess’s Jewish past, while the...

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

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

Marguerite Duras.is interviewed twice, first in 1984 and then in 1993, on her life and work as a writer and filmmaker.