Marguerite Duras Movies

  • 1970
    The Marguerite Duras Century

    The Marguerite Duras Century

    The Marguerite Duras Century

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    Marguerite Duras still has much to tell us about her words and about her silences. In this film, hers is the only voice we hear. She talks about...

    The Marguerite Duras Century
  • 1964
    Dark Night, Calcutta

    Dark Night, Calcutta

    Dark Night, Calcutta

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

    Dark Night, Calcutta
  • 1981
    L’homme atlantique

    L’homme atlantique

    L’homme atlantique

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    A woman watches and speaks to a man as he moves through a house by the sea. She observes his presence and tracks his shifting distance from her.

    L’homme atlantique
  • 2021
    Marguerite Duras, l'écriture et la vie

    Marguerite Duras, l'écriture et la vie

    Marguerite Duras, l'écriture et la vie

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    25 years ago, Marguerite Duras passed away at the age of 81. At the evocation of this name, one spontaneously thinks of the intellectual superstar...

    Marguerite Duras, l'écriture et la vie
  • 1989
    Savannah Bay

    Savannah Bay

    Savannah Bay

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

    Savannah Bay
  • 2008
    Half Past Ten

    Half Past Ten

    Half Past Ten

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

    Half Past Ten
  • 1984
    Work and Words

    Work and Words

    Work and Words

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

    Work and Words
  • 1978
    Les Mains négatives

    Les Mains négatives

    Les Mains négatives

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    Traces a slow advance through Paris in the early hours of the morning. The deserted boulevards of Paris are punctuated by interspersed groups of...

    Les Mains négatives
  • 2023
    Writing

    Writing

    Writing

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

    Writing
  • 1994
    Écrire

    Écrire

    Écrire

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    When Duras saw 'La mort du jeune aviateur anglais', she told Benoît Jacquot that the film was about him, not her. "She treated me like a thief....

    Écrire