Marguerite Duras

...be found in the children's section of most public libraries. Yet fans range from philosopher Michel Serres to novelist Marguerite Duras to filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who is at work on a series of Tintin movies, starting with "The Secret of...

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...the eccentric, scheming mother of two selfish children living in 1931 in French Indochina An episodic adaptation of a Marguerite Duras novel, The Sea Wall stars Isabelle Huppert as the eccentric, scheming and ultimately dying mother of two...

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...literary acclaim and high sales for the winning author. Past recipients include Marcel Proust, Simone de Beauvoir and Marguerite Duras. Post a Comment Offensive or abusive comments will be removed and your IP logged and may be used...

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...literary acclaim and high sales for the winning author. Past recipients include Marcel Proust, Simone de Beauvoir and Marguerite Duras. </p><p>Last year, exiled Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi won the Goncourt prize for "Syngue Sabour," a novel...

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...art form rather than a vehicle for passive entertainment. The collection starts off with Marguerite Duras's first film, Cesaree, which pairs a poem by Duras with footage of statues at Les Tuileries. The visuals aren't that unique or...

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...abstract end of the spectrum. The first film on the DVD is also the oldest: Marguerite Duras' 1979 Cesaree. It's also one of the most radical: Duras' infamous comment "I approach cinema with the intent to murder it" could be applied to this...

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...but argued that she was downtrodden by her husband and the murder was justified. In words that became a black mark on Duras's name, she wrote that Christine Villemin was "sublime, obviously sublime." Writing by Estelle Shirbon; editing...

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