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What happens when Virginia Woolf and Marguerite Duras make dinner together? Irina Brook’s “La Vie Matérielle”
"You say I idealize women? Possibly. Who can say. What’s wrong with a woman being idealized a bit now and then?" – Marguerite Duras "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size." – Virginia Woolf »
Cinema Duras at Anthology Film Archives March 12-18
From March 12th through the 18th, Anthology FIlm archives will be presenting a retrospective of the films of Marguerite Duras as part of the “In the Words of Duras” festival. If you’ve been reading about the great plays and lectures in this festival, which began on February 18, don’t miss out on it’s final... »
Astrid Bas Diptych: The Lover and La Musica Deuxième
Astrid Bas: Diptych, The Lover and La Musica Deuxième, faithfully takes some of the most memorable passages of Duras on love, desire, and her youth from The Lover (1984) and pairs it with her play La Musica Deuxième (1985), a piece exploring the end of love as a soon-to-be divorced couple takes leave of... »