Programmed August 2022

Three by Marguerite Duras

Having revolutionized French literature with her spare yet haunting prose, novelist Marguerite Duras next turned her attention to cinema, the rules of which she rewrote just as radically with her groundbreaking screenplay for Alain Resnais’s influential Hiroshima mon amour and in more than a dozen entrancingly enigmatic films that she directed herself. Experimenting daringly with narrative construction, temporality, and the relationship between sound and image, Duras’s films—including her masterpiece India Song , a mesmerizing evocation of colonial guilt and ennui—rank among the most fascinating and neglected works of twentieth-century cinema.