Marguerite Duras Series

Marguerite Duras explores the matrix of love, desire and language in her characteristically oblique and experimental style. The film’s lovers are never allowed to meet in person, instead carrying out their conversations over the phone, using unlisted phone lines leftover from the German occupation of Paris. Elliptical sequences play out in empty streets, nocturnal cityscapes and shadowy interiors, linked together only by the spectral presence of the character’s voices.

(Marguerite Duras, France, French w/ Eng subs, 90 min, 1979, DCP)

Cosponsored by the Dept. of Film/Video/Animation /New Genres