Duras and Cinema

2014

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Overview

Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor.

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6 members

Directing

Marguerite Duras

self (archive footage)

Acting

Melvil Poupaud

Bruno Nuytten

Acting

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

Benoît Jacquot

Acting

Jeanne Balibar

Voice over for Marguerite Duras texts

Acting

Gérard Depardieu

Self [archive footage]

Acting

Delphine Seyrig

Self [archive footage]

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