marguerite duras

Duras biographer and former director of the French Institute Alliance Française, Jean Vallier returns to FIAF to speak about the life and legacy of Marguerite Duras.

Vallier will provide fascinating insights into his writing process and his work as the great author's biographer. Tickets: FIAF Members $10, Non-Members $15

French professor and Marguerite Duras specialist Sophie Bogaert will introduce and discuss a unique and exclusive 50-minute film featuring Marguerite Duras as she evokes her vision of an adaptation of her novel The Lover.

Hélène Bamberger took photographs of Marguerite Duras during the summers they spent together in Trouville, Normandy, from 1980 to 1994.

These images tell the story of Duras and depict her haunts, her worktable, her room, the skies of Normandy, her lover Yann Andréa…

“When I first met Marguerite, I had never read any Duras.

The works of Marguerite Duras, France's well-known author, playwright and film director, will be celebrated during a month-long multidisciplinary festival in New York City from February 18 to March 18.

We are proud to announce in November the National French Week.

Until November 8, many events – concerts, conferences, gathering – will take place to celebrate French Culture and French language.

Schools, museums, associations, all are organizing something near you to take part to this yearly celebration.

" The Sailor from Gibraltar", the fourth of Duras's 22 novels, was influenced by Hemingway and Steinbeck.

Its conventional narrative is unlike her later experiments in nouvelle roman and stream of consciousness.

Paperback : 276 pages

Directed by Marguerite DURAS | 1972. 1h19mn.

Share a language, a desire, a look.

Why in French, English…The story of a couple, separating, each in their mother tongue, and also in a common tongue, that of the couple.

The Music, the music of their story.

A Reading in french and english subtitled in english with world-known French actress Astrid Bas and American actor Daniel Pettrow

Actors Astrid Bas and Daniel Pettrow will read the short two-character play about a husband and wife who meet three years after their formal separation, when they return to the provincial town where they once liv

by Dominique Auvray

Running time: 61 min

Production year: 2002

Production Dune; ARTE

FIPA 2003

Prix Michel Mitrani