Films byTexts by Marguerite Duras
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Marguerite Duras, 1972, 82’

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.

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Marguerite Duras, 1969, 94’

Elizabeth Alione is sinking into a deep melancholy when she drags down the corridors, the park and the dining room of a hotel. Originally intended as an English-language film under the title The Chaise-Longue, to be directed by Joseph Losey.

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Marguerite Duras, 1975, 120’

Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of a French diplomat, lives in 1930s India. She takes many lovers as systems of oppression decay around her.

 

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15.04.2020

Marguerite Duras based her film Les mains négatives on the Magdalenian caves at the Atlantic coast, where the imprints of hands were found. Thirty-thousand years ago, someone placed her hand against the cave wall and sprayed pigment over it, creating a coloured halo of the hand. When she did this, her hand transformed from a tool into an image. The moment the painter made these imprints is fossilized. Even though the moment of this act took place thousands of years ago, it still exists.

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Marguerite Duras, 1978, 14’

From the end of a night to dawn. An uninterrupted traveling shot. From Bastille to the Champs-Elysees, by way of the Boulevard des Italiens, Avenue de l'Opera, and Rue de Rivoli, a depopulated Paris offers itself to Marguerite Duras' mysterious and profound voice.

 

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16.11.2016

Marguerite Duras’ Les mains négatives premiered in 1978. Images of a ride through Paris apace with the phrases of Amy Flammers’ violin, entwined with Duras’ own voice. Transcribed, the voice-over reads like a poem.

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29.09.2016

In 1978 ging Les mains négatives van Marguerite Duras in première. Over de beelden van een autorit door Parijs klinken muzikale frases van Amy Flammers viool, vervlochten met de stem van Duras. De transcriptie van de voice-over laat zich lezen als een gedicht.

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29.09.2016

Les mains négatives, un court-métrage de Marguerite Duras, sort en 1978. Un long travelling à travers Paris au petit matin se double d’une bande son où s’enchevêtrent les phrases musicales du violon d’Amy Flammers et la voix de Marguerite Duras récitant un texte dont la transcription se lit comme un poème.

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7.09.2016

Marguerite Duras baseerde haar film Les mains négatives op de grotten van het Magdalénien aan de Atlantische kust, waar afdrukken van handen werden gevonden. 30.000 jaar geleden plaatste iemand haar hand tegen de rotswand en spoot er verfstof overheen, waardoor een gekleurde halo van een hand ontstond. Het moment waarop de schilder haar handafdrukken maakte is gefossiliseerd, het bestaat nog steeds.