Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996) was a French writer and film director.
Little Girl Blue
as Self (archive footage)In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death,...
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India Song
as Voix Intemporelle (voice)In 1937 Calcutta, the wife of the French ambassador takes on many lovers.
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about...
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Baxter, Vera Baxter
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who...
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Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
as uncreditedThe full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife...
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Woman of the Ganges
as VoiceA man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. ...
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L’homme atlantique
as Narrator (voice)When everything was ready for my death, I began to write of what I know precisely, which you’ve...
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Nathalie Granger
as (voice)With little or no embellishment, filmmaker Marguerite Duras offers a simple, often wordless...
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Delphine and Carole
as Self (archive footage)In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists,...
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Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
as Self - Writer (archive footage)An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one...
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Agatha and the Limitless Readings
as Narrator (voice)A man and his sister meet at a seaside village to discuss their relationship.
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Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson
as SelfA documentary, originally produced in 1966 for the French TV series "Pour le plaisir," about...
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The Lorry
as elleIn this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu...
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The Places of Marguerite Duras
as uncreditedHer whole childhood, Marguerite Duras spent her time moving. Her house in Neauphle-le-Château is...
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Le Navire Night
as (voice)Each night in Paris, hundreds of men and women anonymously use telephone lines that date from...
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Pornotropic
as Self - Writer (archive footage)When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came...
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Les Mains négatives
as Narrator (voice)Duras narrates a short story while the camera travels through the streets of Paris with short...
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Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
as Self (archive footage)40 years of "Apostrophes". Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an...
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Mitterrand, président culturel
as Self (archive footage)On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to...
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The Death of the Young English Aviator
as uncreditedMarguerite Duras tells the story of the death of a young English aviator in a French village.
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One Minute for One Image
as NarratorTV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is...
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Pop Age
as SelfReport on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles,...
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Marguerite Duras and the Prison Governess
as SelfDuring this strange and confrontational interview, Duras takes on France’s only female prison...
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Marguerite Duras in the Lions' Den
as SelfDuras, ever the challenging interviewer, forensically questions a Parisian zookeeper regarding...
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Marguerite Duras, l'écriture et la vie
as Self25 years ago, Marguerite Duras passed away at the age of 81. At the evocation of this name, one...
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Marguerite Duras and Stripper Lolo Pigalle
as SelfIn this episode of Dim Dam Dom, Duras interviews the stripper Lolo Pigalle. A clip of Lolo...
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Marguerite Duras and the '68ers
as SelfHere Duras assumes a more distant role, less an interviewer than an invested documentarian. Her...
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Cygne I
as Narrator (voice)Stages a double persona on a music of Monteverdi (Ariadne’s lamento interpreted by Janet Baker).
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La Dame des Yvelines
as uncreditedConversation between a woman (Duras) and a man (D. Noguez) about a woman and a man.
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Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver)
as NarratorBased on the letters of a fictitious poetess to her lover. Duras reads extracts from the...
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Work and Words
as HerselfIn this interview with Dominique Noguez, Marguerite Duras talks successively about each of her...
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L'affaire Matzneff
as Self (archive footage)About the Gabriel Matzneff affair and pedophilia in French culture and society from the 1950s to...
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Marguerite Duras interviews Jeanne Moreau
as SelfDuras interviews an exhausted Jeanne Moreau, addressing her friend as vous, despite the fact...
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Marguerite as She Was
as Herself (archive)On June 3, 1991, Marguerite Duras gave me her last published work, "The North China Lover",...
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The Marguerite Duras Century
as SelfMarguerite Duras still has much to tell us about her words and about her silences. In this film,...
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Écrire
as uncreditedWhen Duras saw 'La mort du jeune aviateur anglais', she told Benoît Jacquot that the film was...
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Marguerite Duras: Worn Out with Desire . . . to Write
as HerselfShe was the sort of woman who spared neither herself nor others—and arguably qualifies as...
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Dim Dam Dom: Marguerite Duras and Little François
as uncreditedBroadcast once a month, Dim Dam Dom was a TV variety show on the second channel of French public...
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Marguerite Duras
as HerselfMarguerite Duras.is interviewed twice, first in 1984 and then in 1993, on her life and work as a...
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Apostrophes
as SelfApostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and...
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