Marguerite Duras Movies

Le Navire Night is a story of love and desire sustained and nourished through sound waves. The film’s voice-over tells the story of a woman,...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed...

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

Stages a double persona on a music of Monteverdi (Ariadne’s lamento interpreted by Janet Baker).

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...

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

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

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

Report on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles, press clippings, questions about the...

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.

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)

The whole film takes place in a single room where representatives of the two political forces and their enemy "the Jew" are gathered. A female...