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...

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...

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).

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....

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

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...

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...

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

Two lonely people meet on a park bench and talk about their lives.

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

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...

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

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

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...

On June 3, 1991, Marguerite Duras gave me her last published work, "The North China Lover", autographed for the first time. She wrote: "For my friend...