MARGUERITE DURAS AS FILM-MAKER/OPENING

In the eyes of the woman who "made films to pass [the] time", nothing was impossible. Whether through the dissatisfaction of seeing her texts betrayed by successive adaptations or the desire to set herself new challenges, Marguerite Duras decided in1966 to confront her writing and her voice with images. She was 42. Her involvement with film lasted eighteen years: time enough to make fourteen feature and five short films. A dense body of work, begun with La Musica, film co-directed with Paul Seban and performed by Robert Hossein, alongside an actress who had just been discovered by Alain Resnais, Delphine Seyrig, a future icon in the films of Duras. The retrospective "Marguerite Duras as film-maker" brings together the writer's nineteen films as an echo to the exhibition "Duras Song, portrait d’une écriture" on show in the Bibliothèque Publique d’Information (BPI).

Semi-public opening session, La Musica (1966, 80’), by Marguerite Duras and Paul Seban.