Marguerite Duras Movies

A frail old woman meets a middle-aged man - her estranged son, whom she hasn't seen for five years.

This documentary explores the inner life of François Mitterrand from a unique perspective: that of the writer he never ceased to be. From...

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

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

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

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

Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life.

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

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...

In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers...

Conversation between a woman (Duras) and a man (D. Noguez) about a woman and a man.

Duras interviews an exhausted Jeanne Moreau, addressing her friend as vous, despite the fact "the two were close friends for many years, living in...

After years of absence, Agatha returns to the sea resort of her childhood, in Normandy, with her six years old son, Honoré. On edge, loaded...

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...

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.

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

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,...

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