CINEMATEK and Another Gaze Present Marguerite Duras Retrospective in Brussels

From 4 April to 23 May, CINEMATEK, in collaboration with Another Gaze journal, presents ‘Let Cinema Go to Its Ruin: The Cinema of Marguerite Duras’, a major retrospective dedicated to one of the most singular voices in modern cinema. The programme is a reprise of the retrospective hosted at ICA London in 2024. The programme brings together Duras’ short films, feature films, and television works, along with several pieces she wrote or to which she lent her voice.

“From 1966 on, the renowned writer Marguerite Duras changed directions and walked away from the ‘terrifying labour’ of writing to take up the camera. Keen to protect her texts from overly sanitised adaptations, she built up a radical and personal body of cinematic work over three decades. Duras championed a ‘cinema of poverty’: through the disconnection of sound and image, hypnotic narratives and sensual wordplay, she explored her favourite themes (desire, colonial memory, the working class and the condition of women) with absolute formal freedom.” – CINEMATEK programme notes

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