Cycles

Marguerite Duras en 6 films

Duras l'éternelle (1914-1996)

6 films

Un cycle consacré à Marguerite Duras qui continue à fasciner et inspirer les cinéastes, avec 3 films de patrimoine et 3 films contemporains, sur ou autour de l’œuvre de cette immense femme de lettres, dramaturge, scénariste…

Marguerite Duras en 6 films
  • Literary adaptation, Drama
  • 2017
  • France
  • 2h07
by Emmanuel Finkiel

In the 1944 Nazi-occupied France, young talented writer Marguerite is an active Resistance member with her husband Robert Antelme. When he is deported by the Gestapo, she dives into a desperate struggle to get him back. She develops a chilling relationship with local Vichy collaborator Rabier and takes terrible risks to save Robert, playing a cat-and-mouse of unpredictable meetings all over Paris. Does he really want to help her? Or is he trying to dig up information about the anti-Nazi underground? Then come the end of the war and the return of camp victims, an excruciating period for her, and a long and silent agony after the chaos of the Liberation of Paris. But she continues to wait, bound to the torment of absence even beyond hope.

  • Literary adaptation
  • 2021
  • 1h44
by Matthieu Rozé

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 little village, wedged between the sea and the mountains. As usual, they are bored and eat and drink a lot. They do not pay attention to the fire which progresses on the mountain nearby, nor to the world around them. But this year, a mysterious man arrives from the sea and shakes up their seemingly balanced existence...

  • Literary adaptation
  • 1961
  • 1h30
by Henri Colpi

Therese runs a café in Paris; she lost her husband when he disappeared sixteen years earlier, and, while time has healed some of her wounds, she's still a lonely person. One day, a tramp passes by humming a familiar tune, and Therese is convinced that the vagabond is her husband. She follows him to his home, a tiny shack by the river, and tries to question him about his past. She discovers that the tramp suffers from amnesia and has no clear memory of his past. Therese brings him back to her cafe in hopes of jogging his memory and renewing the love they once knew.

  • Drama, Literary adaptation
  • 1959
  • 1h31
by Alain Resnais

A French actress is shooting a pacifist film in Japan; she has a brief affair with a Japanese architect, they talk, in a hotel room, in a bar, in the night. She talks about herself, a little girl from Nevers who once, in occupied France, loved a German soldier... She talks about herself, painful, radiant, terrified, appeased.

  • Drama, Literary adaptation
  • 1974
  • France
  • 1h35
by Marguerite Duras

Thirties, an Indian metropolis on the banks of the Ganges. Social evenings filled with foreign diplomats. A woman, or the memory of a woman, wanders among the men in their clothes. Among them, the vice-consul, falot and painful, who loves her and shouts his love in the night. Time becomes blurred, diluted in the incantatory music of the voices.

  • Drama, Literary adaptation
  • 2021
  • France
  • 1h35
by Claire Simon

A man involved in a passionate relationship with a celebrated writer of 30 years his senior needs to talk. He is fascinated by her and yet he feels he just cannot go on anymore. He opens up, in an attempt to put into words the intensity of his love and he describes it with great clarity.

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