Marguerite Duras Movies

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has...

A documentary about filmmaker Marguerite Duras.

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the...

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

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).

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...

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....

It’s summer, the heat is overwhelming and the weather is out of whack. A group of friends are enjoying their yearly holiday in their favorite...

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

Drama of an unmarried mother who regrets having had her child fostered and fights its foster parents to have it restored to her.

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...

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...

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

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

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

Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor.

Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had...

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