Marguerite Duras Movies

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

'The subject of this film is the conversation between a man and a woman. A couple, maybe lovers, maybe married, it doesn't matter. (...) During this...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Ernesto, a seven-year-old boy who has the body of a thirty-year-old man, decides, upon attending his first day of school, that he no longer wishes to...

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)

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

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

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.

In a secluded hotel circumscribed by a dense forest Max and Alissa Thor meet Stein and Elisabeth. Max, a professor of future history and an aspiring...