Stages a double persona on a music of Monteverdi (Ariadne’s lamento interpreted by Janet Baker).

A Reading of Absis’ Text by Marguerite Duras

Cygne I.mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Absis – Cygne I (1976)  first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Seven year-old boy Ernesto intrigues people around him for several reasons. Despite such a young age, he looks like a man on his 40’s and also seems a little more intelligent than any of his peers – and the latter fact is what causes him to quit school, refusing to attend it because he doesn’t want to learn the things he does not know. His family is very supportive of his actions, even though they don’t have any clue of what’s to become of him; at the same time the school headmaster and a journalist are concerned about Ernesto’s real motivations for leaving school.

The.Children.1984.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 23 min
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Marguerite Duras – Les enfants AKA The Children (1985) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Four voices attempt to reconstruct the story of the Vice-Consul of Lahore and Anne-Marie Stretter. The soundtrack is that of India Song while the images take the viewer through the empty rooms and the garden of a ruined palace.

La Cinémathèque française wrote:
A mock remake of India Song, using the locations and music of the original film to question memory and the passage of time. In the ruins of the Rothschild palace, the actors have disappeared and are replaced by ghostly visions, voices interspersed with period melodies. From panoramic to travelling shots, Duras works on the recollection, the grace contained in the images that remain, and favours the stripping down to bare essentials. It’s a mesmerising journey into how words resist and live on.

‘The referent would then be no more than the memory of the filmic material. A volatile, bottomless memory, carried only by an impulse to write whose intensities are consumed without rest. An evocation that endlessly carries its material repercussions’.
(Jean-Pierre Oudart)

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The film uses the same soundtrack of her 1975 film India Song, but is set to different images alongside an additional ending. It depicts the life of Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of ambassador to India circa 1930, who is also a main character in India Song.

	
Marguerite Duras - 1976 - Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert [DVD-PAL].mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 53 min
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French

The post Marguerite Duras – Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert AKA Her Venetian Name in Deserted Calcutta (1976) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A husband and wife meet three years after their formal separation, when they return to the provincial town where they once lived to pick up their divorce decree.

La Musica.1967.1080p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 26 min
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French

The post Marguerite Duras & Paul Seban – La musica AKA The Music (1967) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the characters or their motivations, and sometimes the actor does. That’s all — there is no action, there are no location shots, no one pretends to be anything else. The script itself tells about an encounter between a blank-slate of a woman hitchhiker, and a communist truck driver. As the reading progresses, Duras comments bitterly about the failed ideals of communism and the glorious revolution that will probably never happen.

The.Lorry.1977.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.AFKI.mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Marguerite Duras – Le Camion AKA The Truck (1977) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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 (Delphine Seyrig) staves off ennui through affairs with multiple men—with the overpowering torpor broken only by a startling eruption of madness. Setting her evocatively decadent visuals to a desynchronized chorus of disembodied voices that comment on and counterpoint the action, Duras creates a haunted-house movie unlike any other. (-criterion.com)

5.92GB | 1h 59m | 986×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/36EB51E97167BE4/India_Song_1975_720p_BluRay_FLAC1.0_x264-Mdr.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Marguerite Duras – India Song (1975) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Each night in Paris, hundreds of men and women anonymously use telephone lines that date from the German Occupation and are no longer listed to talk to each other, to love each other.

The plot of Le Navire Night concerns a love affair between a young man and a woman, F., who first make contact by telephone one night, quite by chance. They have never seen each other or met before, but a relationship begins as a result of the conversation; F. continues telephoning. He, however, never learns F.’ s full name, telephone number or address, and all initiative for the relationship falls to her. The affair unfolds purely as an affair of the human voice, but this adds to the sexual intensity of the relationship rather than detracting from it: ‘C’est un orgasme noir,’ one hears the voice of Bulle Ogier saying. ‘Sans toucher réciproque. Ni visage. Les yeux fermés. Ta voix, seule’ (‘It’s a dark orgasm. Without mutual touching. Nor a face. Eyes closed. Just your voice’, N, 27–8). Three years go by, and the pair agree to meet. (In the 1978 magazine version the meeting is F.’ s idea, while, in the later version, it is the man who insists on seeing F., but only as a way of putting an end to his fear of seeing her [N, 33]; in this respect it is as though the desire to see belongs to neither her nor him, but circulates between them as a necessary step that must continually be envisaged yet constantly deferred.) F. goes to the meeting, sees her lover, but fails to show herself. He subsequently receives several photographs of F., which he sends back; having finally succeeded in forgetting them, he rediscovers his very first and only desirable image of F.—‘l’image noire’ (N, 75) Duras calls it—given to him by F. herself, verbally, over the telephone. Towards the end, F., who claims to be suffering from leukaemia, announces that he is the only man she has ever loved (N, 77), but also informs him of her forthcoming marriage; the story ends in suspense, without F.’ s lover knowing whether she is dead or still alive.

3.32GMB | 1h 33m | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9A4756C8B855278/Le.navire.Night.1979.1080p.CRIT.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-WELP.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English Hardcoded

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