Short films by Marguerite Duras

Union Cinema

Marguerite Duras Series Les Mains Négatives (1978, 18 min), an ode to the excluded of humanity, traces a slow advance through Paris, deepened by the reference to the drawings of hands found in many caves dating from the Magdalenian age.... Read More

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India Song

Union Cinema

Marguerite Duras Series Marguerite Duras’s most celebrated work is a mesmerizing, almost incantatory experience with few stylistic precedents in the history of cinema. Within the insular walls of a lavish, decaying embassy in 1930s India, the French ambassador’s wife staves... Read More

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Le Navire Night

Union Cinema

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... Read More

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2/Duo

Union Cinema

New Restoration! Nobuhiro Suwa’s second feature and breakout film telescopes in on the seemingly mannered, domestic life of a young couple – Kei, a cash-strapped aspiring actor and Yu, a junior employee at a high-end clothing store – and finds... Read More

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High Hopes

Union Cinema

A darkly comic portrait of late Thatcher-era London, High Hopes examines the different lives of a pair of siblings: Cyril, a caustic motorcycle courier who takes pride in his working class roots, and Valerie, a high-strung aspirant to upper-middle class... Read More

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