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Marguerite Duras (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996) was a French writer and film director.
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The Lover Trailer (1992)
22 January 1992
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 control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.
Hiroshima: The Time of Return Trailer (2005)
28 February 2005
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 was originally intended to be a short documentary film and which turned into an unusual allegory.
Dark Night, Calcutta Trailer (1964)
01 January 1964
Marin Karmitz's avant-garde short film is a haunting tale about an alcoholic novelist facing a crippling case of writer's block.
10:30 P.M. Summer Trailer (1966)
24 October 1966
A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.
La Voleuse Trailer (1966)
26 August 1966
Drama of an unmarried mother who regrets having had her child fostered and fights its foster parents to have it restored to her.
Mitterrand, président culturel Trailer (2021)
12 May 2021
On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, from admiration to manipulation.
Suzanna Andler Trailer (2021)
02 June 2021
Accompanied by her lover, Suzanna, 40, views a Riviera beach house for her family's summer vacation. This day, this break in her routine, in this new house, will mark a turning point in her life.
Hiroshima Mon Amour Trailer (1959)
10 June 1959
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave.
The Death of the Young English Aviator Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
Marguerite Duras tells the story of the death of a young English aviator in a French village.
Sans merveille Trailer (1964)
14 April 1964
Franck and Hélène meet in Deauville and decide to get married instantly. A year passes. Their conversation, over the seasons, questions their love as it's put to the test.
Marguerite Duras Trailer (1994)
06 February 1994
Marguerite Duras.is interviewed twice, first in 1984 and then in 1993, on her life and work as a writer and filmmaker.
Azuro Trailer (2022)
30 March 2022
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 little village, wedged between the sea and the mountains.
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit Trailer (2018)
02 April 2018
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.
Marguerite Duras and the '68ers Trailer (1968)
10 March 1968
Here Duras assumes a more distant role, less an interviewer than an invested documentarian. Her questions precede footage of her main subject, the sixteen-year-old Romain Goupil, recently excluded from the lycée, among his peers and fellow student revolutonaries.
Woman of the Ganges Trailer (1974)
03 April 1974
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 imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case.
Marguerite Duras interviews Jeanne Moreau Trailer (1965)
28 July 1965
Duras interviews an exhausted Jeanne Moreau, addressing her friend as vous, despite the fact "the two were close friends for many years, living in neighbouring houses and cooking for each other from the early ‘60s.
Marguerite Duras and Stripper Lolo Pigalle Trailer (1965)
28 October 1965
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 intimate conversation in which Lolo discusses the definition of work, the splitting of the self, and acting vs.
This Angry Age Trailer (1957)
31 October 1957
Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother.
Duras/Godard Trailer (1987)
02 December 1987
On December 2, 1987, the filmmaker visited the novelist at her home in Paris. This meeting gave rise to this hour-long documentary in which JLG and Marguerite Duras attempt to establish a dialogue about artistic creation.
Godard Cinema Trailer (2023)
05 June 2023
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth.
The Malady of Death Trailer (1985)
26 March 1985
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 paid both for her sexual favors and for lying there naked and letting him examine the aesthetics of her body.
Marguerite Duras in the Lions' Den Trailer (1966)
25 February 1966
Duras, ever the challenging interviewer, forensically questions a Parisian zookeeper regarding the happiness of the animals in his charge.
Half Past Ten Trailer (2008)
01 December 2008
An alcoholic married man discovers he has fallen out of love with his moody wife.
Mademoiselle Trailer (1966)
01 June 1966
A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.
Memoir of War Trailer (2017)
17 August 2017
In the last days of the Nazi-occupied France, writer Marguerite Duras awaits the return of her husband, Robert Antelme, arrested for being a Resistance fighter and then deported, while she maintains a tense relationship with her ambiguous lover and a dangerous game with a French collaborationist.
Césarée Trailer (1978)
27 August 1978
On images of the Tuileries Gardens, Marguerite Duras recalls Césarée, an ancient destroyed city.
Gaumont-Palace Trailer (1976)
25 March 1976
From the deserted halls and corridors of the Gaumont-Palace cinema in Paris, memories of the great films that inhabited it before its demolition emerge like ghosts.
Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne) Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
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, past familiar bridges and landmarks.
Entire Days in the Trees Trailer (1977)
09 February 1977
An old lady returns from Africa where she made a fortune to find her son in Paris, whom she has not seen in five years, with the intention of bringing him back with her.
Cygne I Trailer (1976)
02 July 1976
Stages a double persona on a music of Monteverdi (Ariadne’s lamento interpreted by Janet Baker).
La Dame des Yvelines Trailer (1984)
01 July 1984
Conversation between a woman (Duras) and a man (D. Noguez) about a woman and a man.
The Places of Marguerite Duras Trailer (1976)
03 May 1976
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 she says: “All the women in my books have lived in this house.
Work and Words Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
In this interview with Dominique Noguez, Marguerite Duras talks successively about each of her four short films made in 1979: Césarée, Les Mains négatives, Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne), Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver).
Les enfants et Noël Trailer (1965)
25 November 1965
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 "laughter of joy".
Dim Dam Dom: Marguerite Duras and Little François Trailer (1965)
30 April 1965
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 sequences presented by one–off guest presenters.
Roman Dialogue Trailer (1983)
23 February 1983
'The subject of this film is the conversation between a man and a woman. A couple, maybe lovers, maybe married, it doesn't matter.
Baxter, Vera Baxter Trailer (1977)
08 June 1977
In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was drawn to the villa when she heard the name Vera Baxter pronounced.
Delphine and Carole Trailer (2020)
14 January 2020
In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France.
Marguerite Duras: Worn Out with Desire . . . to Write Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
She was the sort of woman who spared neither herself nor others—and arguably qualifies as 20th-century France’s greatest femme de lettres.
Mulher a Mulher: Interview with Marguerite Duras by Yann Lemée Trailer (1980)
15 June 1980
‘Mulher a Mulher’ is a Portuguese TV show dedicated to the condition of women that aims to demystify gender prejudice.
Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver) Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
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 film shows stark waves beating against the seashore.
The Colour of Words Trailer (1984)
12 June 1984
This afterword to India Song (Duras' celebrated 1975 film) is organized in several parts. It begins with an interview to Marguerite Duras by Dominique Noguez, an expert in her work; the interview links the film to the two movies whom it's related to: The Ravishment of Lol V.
The Long Absence Trailer (1961)
17 May 1961
Therese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband.
L'affaire Matzneff Trailer (2020)
05 January 2020
About the Gabriel Matzneff affair and pedophilia in French culture and society from the 1950s to the present day.
Little Girl Blue Trailer (2023)
01 November 2023
In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings that Carole left behind, but these buried secrets make her disappearance even more of an enigma.
India Song Trailer (1975)
04 June 1975
Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life.
Les vendredis d'Apostrophes Trailer (2015)
06 November 2015
Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had commented on by a surprised Bernard Pivot.
Savannah Bay Trailer (1989)
01 April 1989
The film tries to retain the memory, the compulsion and the nostalgia of a text by Marguerite Duras.
Drifters of a shadowy dream Trailer (2018)
10 December 2018
X, a film location scout, spend his time travelling from place to place looking for filming locations, at the same time that he's looking for funding for the film he wrote himself.
Writing Trailer (2023)
20 July 2023
Korytkowska and Hatłas's essay, blurring the boundaries between cinema and literature, is a universal story about the difficulty and the satisfaction directly associated with any act of creation.
Seven Days… Seven Nights Trailer (1960)
25 May 1960
Anne Desbarèdes is a young woman who is married to a wealthy businessman and lives a monotonous existence in the small commune town of Blaye.
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert Trailer (1976)
02 June 1976
The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography.
The Sea Wall Trailer (2009)
07 January 2009
The film centers on a young French widow and her two adolescent children as they attempt to carve out a meager life for themselves by farming rice fields alongside the ocean in French Indo-China in the 1930s.
Marguerite as She Was Trailer (2003)
04 April 2003
On June 3, 1991, Marguerite Duras gave me her last published work, "The North China Lover", autographed for the first time.
The Children Trailer (1985)
29 May 1985
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 attend, because he does not wish to be taught matters that he does not know.
Les Mains négatives Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
Traces a slow advance through Paris in the early hours of the morning. The deserted boulevards of Paris are punctuated by interspersed groups of dark-skinned workers, stray prostitutes and vagabonds.
The Square Trailer (1961)
07 September 1961
Two lonely people meet on a park bench and talk about their lives.
