Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996) was a French writer and film director.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.172 |
| Birthday | 1914-04-04 |
| Place of Birth | Gia Định, Vietnam |
| Also Known As | Marguerite Donnadieu, 마르그리트 뒤라스, 마르그리트 뒤라, 마가렛 뒤라스, 玛格丽特·杜拉斯, |
1977
The Lorry
6.4/17
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. Occasio...
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The Lorry
1966
Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson
0/0
A documentary, originally produced in 1966 for the French TV series "Pour le plaisir," about Robert Bresson's film "Au Hasard Balthazar," featuring in...
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Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson
1978
Les Mains négatives
7.071/14
Duras narrates a short story while the camera travels through the streets of Paris with short interludes of solemn music.
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Les Mains négatives
1985
Marguerite Duras: Worn Out with Desire . . . to Write
0/0
She was the sort of woman who spared neither herself nor others—and arguably qualifies as 20th-century France’s greatest femme de lettres. In this int...
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Marguerite Duras: Worn Out with Desire . . . to Write
1981
Duras Shoots
0/0
A documentary about filmmaker Marguerite Duras.
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Duras Shoots
1983
One Minute for One Image
5.2/5
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)
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One Minute for One Image
1993
The Death of the Young English Aviator
6.7/6
Marguerite Duras tells the story of the death of a young English aviator in a French village.
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The Death of the Young English Aviator
1994
Écrire
6.3/3
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. So I o...
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Écrire
2003
Marguerite as She Was
6.5/2
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...
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Marguerite as She Was
1975
India Song
6.4/73
In 1937 Calcutta, the wife of the French ambassador takes on many lovers.
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India Song
1984
The Colour of Words
0/0
This afterword to India Song (Duras' celebrated 1975 film) is organized in several parts. It begins with an interview to Marguerite Duras by Dominiqu...
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The Colour of Words
1981
L’homme atlantique
5.3/7
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 understand …...
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L’homme atlantique
1979
Le Navire Night
6.556/18
Each night in Paris, hundreds of men and women anonymously use telephone lines that date from the German Occupation and are no longer listed to talk t...
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Le Navire Night
1981
Agatha and the Limitless Readings
6.278/18
A man and his sister meet at a seaside village to discuss their relationship.
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Agatha and the Limitless Readings
2015
Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
6/1
40 years of "Apostrophes". Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a p...
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Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
2020
L'affaire Matzneff
0/0
About the Gabriel Matzneff affair and pedophilia in French culture and society from the 1950s to the present day. "It was not very difficult to know w...
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L'affaire Matzneff
2005
Hiroshima: The Time of Return
0/0
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...
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Hiroshima: The Time of Return
1987
Duras/Godard
0/0
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Duras/Godard
1965
Dim Dam Dom: Marguerite Duras and Little François
0/0
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 s...
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Dim Dam Dom: Marguerite Duras and Little François
1984
La Dame des Yvelines
0/0
Conversation between a woman (Duras) and a man (D. Noguez) about a woman and a man.
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La Dame des Yvelines
1977
Baxter, Vera Baxter
6.135/26
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 Baxt...
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Baxter, Vera Baxter
2018
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
7/5
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.
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Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
1976
The Places of Marguerite Duras
6/1
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 sa...
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The Places of Marguerite Duras
2020
Pornotropic
7.2/5
When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt....
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Pornotropic
1966
Pop Age
0/0
Report on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles, press clippings, questions about the impact of fashion (l...
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Pop Age
2020
Delphine and Carole
7/13
In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They doc...
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Delphine and Carole
1965
Marguerite Duras and Stripper Lolo Pigalle
6/1
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 int...
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Marguerite Duras and Stripper Lolo Pigalle
1965
Marguerite Duras interviews Jeanne Moreau
0/0
Duras interviews an exhausted Jeanne Moreau, addressing her friend as vous, despite the fact "the two were close friends for many years, living in nei...
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Marguerite Duras interviews Jeanne Moreau
1966
Marguerite Duras in the Lions' Den
0/0
Duras, ever the challenging interviewer, forensically questions a Parisian zookeeper regarding the happiness of the animals in his charge. Intercut wi...
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Marguerite Duras in the Lions' Den
1967
Marguerite Duras and the Prison Governess
6/1
During this strange and confrontational interview, Duras takes on France’s only female prison warden. In the women’s verbal wrangling we find reflecte...
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Marguerite Duras and the Prison Governess
1968
Marguerite Duras and the '68ers
6/1
Here Duras assumes a more distant role, less an interviewer than an invested documentarian. Her questions precede footage of her main subject, the six...
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Marguerite Duras and the '68ers
2021
Mitterrand, président culturel
0/0
On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, f...
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Mitterrand, président culturel
Work and Words
0/0
In this interview with Dominique Noguez, Marguerite Duras talks successively about each of her four short films made in 1979: Césarée, Les Mains négat...
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Work and Words
2021
Marguerite Duras, l'écriture et la vie
0/0
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 Dur...
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Marguerite Duras - Écrire
0/0
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The Marguerite Duras Century
0/0
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 herse...
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The Marguerite Duras Century
1974
Woman of the Ganges
8.2/5
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 i...
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Woman of the Ganges
1976
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
7/14
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 cinema...
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Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
1994
Marguerite Duras
0/0
Marguerite Duras.is interviewed twice, first in 1984 and then in 1993, on her life and work as a writer and filmmaker.
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Marguerite Duras
1979
Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver)
9/3
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 show...
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Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver)
2014
Duras and Cinema
0/0
Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor.
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Duras and Cinema
2022
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
7.7/3
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions wa...
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
1984
Savannah Bay c’est toi
0/0
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Savannah Bay c’est toi
1973
Nathalie Granger
6.1/23
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 do...
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Nathalie Granger
1976
Cygne I
0/0
Stages a double persona on a music of Monteverdi (Ariadne’s lamento interpreted by Janet Baker).
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Cygne I
2023
Little Girl Blue
6.129/31
In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers...
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Little Girl Blue
1965
Les enfants et Noël
0/0
Reflections (in voice-over) by Marguerite DURAS on toys "the most beautiful are those you see behind the window", children's relationship with toys, t...
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