#marguerite duras
« Des bras serrés autour de soi, ça soulage. On pourrait presque croire que ça va mieux quelquefois. Une minute d'air respirable. » - Marguerite Duras
“When you’re writing, a kind of instinct comes into play. What you’re going to write is already there in the darkness. It’s as if writing were something outside you, in a tangle of tenses. Between writing and having written, having written and having to go on writing; between knowing and not knowing what it’s all about; starting from complete meaning, being submerged by it, and ending up in meaninglessness.”— Marguerite Duras, Practicalities
You might have thought that evening had come, but it was the storm darkening the sky.
—Marguerite Duras,10:30 on a Summer Night
“Savage and naked along the cliffs of the very first ages, as vast as the absolute absence of even the possibility of God.”
—Yann Andrea Steiner.Marguerite Duras. Translated by Mark Polizzotti.
underseen masterpiece list
a real young girl (1976, catherine breillat) france
alucarda (1977, juan lópez moctezuma) mexico
anatomy of hell (2004, catherine breillat) france
apocalypse after (2018, bertrand mandico) france
baxter, vera baxter (1977, marguerite duras) france
blanche (1971, walerian borowczyk) france
blood tea and red string (2006, christiane cegavske) usa
blue spring (2001, toshiaki toyoda) japan
céline (1992, jean-claude brisseau) france
demonlover (2002, olivier assayas) france/japan
dumplings (2004, fruit chan) hong kong
himiko (1974, masahiro shinoda) japan
i am keiko (1997, sion sono) japan
india song (1975, marguerite duras) france
innocence (2004, lucile hadžihalilović) belgium/france
ludwig (1973, luchino visconti) italy
marianne and juliane (1981, margarethe von trotta) germany
martha (1974, rainer werner fassbinder) germany
mr. klein (1976, joseph losey) france
poison (1991, todd haynes) usa
puzzle of a downfall child (1970, jerry schatzberg) usa
scarlet diva (2000, asia argento) italy
sex & fury (1973, norifumi suzuki) japan
successive slidings of pleasure (1974, alain robbe-grillet) france
taboo (1999, nagisa ōshima) japan
the night of the hunted (1980, jean rollin) france
the nun (1966, jacques rivette) france
the pillow book (1996, peter greenaway) uk
the river (1997, tsai ming-liang) taiwan
the sleeping beauty (2010, catherine breillat) france
the story of sin (1975, walerian borowczyk) poland
the tempest (1979, derek jarman) uk
the valley of the bees (1968, františek vláčil) czechoslovakia
toby dammit (1968, federico fellini) france/italy
venus in furs (1969, jesús franco) uk/italy
1.India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras)
2.In a Year with 13 Moons (1978, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
3.Lourdes(2009, Jessica Hausner)
4.Castle in the Sky (1986, Hayao Miyazaki)
5.Our Daily Bread (1934, King Vidor)
6.8 Women (2002, François Ozon)
7.White Bird in a Blizzard (2014, Gregg Araki)
8.Contagion(2011, Steven Soderbergh)
9.Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984, Hayao Miyazaki)
10.The Flying Luna Clipper (1987, Ikko Ono)
8 Women (2002, François Ozon)
Æon Flux (2005, Karyn Kusama)
A Bay of Blood (1971, Mario Bava)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004, Beeban Kidron)
Castle in the Sky (1986, Hayao Miyazaki)
Chloe (2009, Atom Egoyan)
Contagion (2011, Steven Soderbergh)
Damsels in Distress (2011, Whit Stillman)
Dom Hemingway (2013, Richard Shepard)
Endless Love (1981, Franco Zeffirelli)
Here Now (2015, Gregg Araki) (Short)
Horse Girl (2020, Jeff Baena)
In a Year with 13 Moons (1978, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989, Hayao Miyazaki)
Little Women (1994, Gillian Armstrong)
Lourdes (2009, Jessica Hausner)
Madame X: An Absolute Ruler (1978, Ulrike Ottinger & Tabea Blumenschein)
Music and Lyrics (2007, Marc Lawrence)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984, Hayao Miyazaki)
Our Daily Bread (1934, King Vidor)
Porco Rosso (1992, Hayao Miyazaki)
School’s Out (2018, Sébastien Marnier)
St. Trinian’s (2007, Barnaby Thompson & Oliver Parker)
St. Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold (2009, Barnaby Thompson & Oliver Parker)
Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006, Adam McKay)
The Crush (1993, Alan Shapiro)
The Fish Child (2009, Lucía Puenzo)
The Flying Luna Clipper (1987, Ikko Ono)
The Holiday (2006, Nancy Meyers)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013, Isao Takahata)
The Toxic Avenger (1984, Lloyd Kaufman & Michael Herz)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016, Glenn Ficarra & John Requa)
White Bird in a Blizzard (2014, Gregg Araki)
Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour (tr. by Richard Seaver), 1959
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
“Some years from now, when I have forgotten you and other romances like this one have recurred through sheer habit, I will remember you as a symbol of love’s forgetfulness. This affair will remind me how horrible forgetting is.”
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