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Criterion Channel
68
56
6.1
/2855/
59
/67/
64
/84/
3.7
/9116/
86
/7/
65
/30/

India Song (1975)
Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life.
poster
61
33
6.5
/501/
50
/10/
62
/20/
3.7
/1578/
57
/181/

The Lorry (1977)
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. Occasionally, the director comments about the characters or their motivations, and sometimes the actor does. That's all -- there is no action, there are no location shots, no one pretends to be anything else. The script itself tells about an encounter between a blank-slate of a woman hitchhiker, and a communist truck driver. As the reading progresses, Duras comments bitterly about the failed ideals of communism and the glorious revolution that will probably never happen.
poster
Criterion Channel
59
32
6.0
/719/
45
/26/
57
/29/
3.5
/2900/
60
/16/

Baxter, Vera Baxter (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. Vera tells her about her no-good husband, who has been using her to keep his failing business afloat, up to her present love affair.
poster
66
30
6.8
/372/
59
/10/
62
/20/
3.9
/2211/

Agatha and the Limitless Readings (1981)
A man and his sister meet at a seaside village to discuss their relationship.
poster
63
29
6.7
/700/
55
/9/
59
/26/
3.7
/1467/

Nathalie Granger (1973)
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 doing yard work, talking about their families and receiving the occasional visitor. The brightest spot in the day is when a washing machine salesman comes to call.
poster
70
28
7.0
/310/
65
/8/
70
/15/
3.8
/2034/

Les Mains négatives (1978)
Duras narrates a short story while the camera travels through the streets of Paris with short interludes of solemn music.
poster
Kanopy
65
26
6.5
/386/
58
/5/
65
/19/
3.7
/1547/

Le Navire Night (1979)
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, terminally ill with leukemia, living in isolation at her wealthy father's villa, and a man working night shifts at a telephone company. They have never met in person.
poster
67
22
7.5
/195/
60
/4/
49
/9/
4.0
/1838/

L’homme atlantique (1981)
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 … I have made a film out of your absence.
poster
65
17
6.8
/313/
55
/8/
68
/13/
3.5
/805/

Destroy, She Said (1969)
In a secluded hotel circumscribed by a dense forest Max and Alissa Thor meet Stein and Elisabeth. Max, a professor of future history and an aspiring author, is immediately attracted to the brooding wife of industrialist Bernard Alione, Elisabeth, who is recovering from a miscarriage. Stein, a German Jew and potential writer, is infatuated by Alissa, Max's young wife and former student. During their sojourn the guests' identities gradually meld.
poster
68
16
7.3
/201/
55
/2/
70
/14/
3.8
/652/

Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (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. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.
poster
62
15
6.4
/238/
56
/6/
58
/10/
3.6
/909/

Césarée (1978)
On images of the Tuileries Gardens, Marguerite Duras recalls Césarée, an ancient destroyed city.
poster
66
13
6.8
/184/
40
/4/
73
/7/
3.7
/752/

Woman of the Ganges (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...
poster
60
12
7.2
/181/
48
/5/
48
/10/
3.6
/738/

La Musica (1967)
A husband and wife meet three years after their formal separation, when they return to the provincial town where they once lived to pick up their divorce decree.
poster
60
10
6.6
/213/
46
/6/
59
/11/
3.6
/384/

The Children (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.
poster
79
?
7.3
/103/
90
/3/
3.7
/322/

Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver) (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. – BFI
poster
85
?
7.3
/109/
85
/2/
93
/3/
3.7
/430/

Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne) (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. – BFI
poster
?
6.2
/61/
10
/1/
46
/5/

Jaune, Le Soleil (1971)
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 character establishes the dialogue between these individuals and comments on the ideology of each; Until the final scene where everyone seems to rally to a common idea.
poster
68
?
7.0
/108/
60
/2/
68
/6/
3.7
/337/

Entire Days in the Trees (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. But this project fails.


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