Michelle Porte
Michelle Porte began her career at the Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française’s Research Department as part of the Image Research Team. She became known to the general public for two major films about Marguerite Duras, Les lieux de Marguerite Duras (1976) and Savannah Bay, c'est toi (1984) as well as her feature-length movie L'après-midi de Monsieur Andesmas (2004), an adaptation of Duras’ novel. In thirty years of filmmaking, Michelle Porte has built up a wide-ranging body of work, focusing her gaze on some of the 20th century’s great artists such as Virginia Woolf, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Christian Boltanski and Françoise Sagan; tragic destinies (Le Gardien du feu); and key moments in history (La Peste. Marseille 1720; La Princesse Palatine à Versailles).
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Savannah Bay, c'est toi
Paris, 1983. Marguerite Duras, Madeleine Renaud, and Bulle Ogier are in the large hall of the Théâtre du Rond-Point where they are working on the creation of _Savannah Bay_. What they show us, what they make us experience, is truly the birth of the play: those privileged moments of theatrical creation when the ultimate coincidence between text and movement is established.
Les mots comme des pierres – Annie Ernaux écrivain
Les mots comme des pierres – Annie Ernaux écrivain
Duration: 52 minutesIn 2008, with the release of her book *The Years*, Annie Ernaux was recognized by an almost unanimous press as one of the major writers of our time. For her, each thing, each place or each event corresponds to a period of our life, which we transmit. A life, for the writer, is a unique experience, but also a common place. For her, it is never a question of introspection, nor of a narcissistic a...
Les Lieux de Marguerite Duras
In the course of these two interviews, one filmed in her home in Yvelines, the other in the former Hôtel des Roches Noires in Trouville, Marguerite Duras looks back on the importance of place in her writing, especially in her films. She describes the crucial presence of women in these places, the same women who move from books to films. In the first interview, Duras talks of this house in Neau...
Les Lieux de Marguerite Duras
In the course of these two interviews, one filmed in her home in Yvelines, the other in the former Hôtel des Roches Noires in Trouville, Marguerite Duras looks back on the importance of place in her writing, especially in her films. She describes the crucial presence of women in these places, the same women who move from books to films. In the first interview, Duras talks of this house in Neau...
Savannah Bay, c'est toi
Paris, 1983. Marguerite Duras, Madeleine Renaud, and Bulle Ogier are in the large hall of the Théâtre du Rond-Point where they are working on the creation of _Savannah Bay_. What they show us, what they make us experience, is truly the birth of the play: those privileged moments of theatrical creation when the ultimate coincidence between text and movement is established.
Les mots comme des pierres – Annie Ernaux écrivain
Les mots comme des pierres – Annie Ernaux écrivain
Duration: 52 minutesIn 2008, with the release of her book *The Years*, Annie Ernaux was recognized by an almost unanimous press as one of the major writers of our time. For her, each thing, each place or each event corresponds to a period of our life, which we transmit. A life, for the writer, is a unique experience, but also a common place. For her, it is never a question of introspection, nor of a narcissistic a...
Les Lieux de Marguerite Duras
In the course of these two interviews, one filmed in her home in Yvelines, the other in the former Hôtel des Roches Noires in Trouville, Marguerite Duras looks back on the importance of place in her writing, especially in her films. She describes the crucial presence of women in these places, the same women who move from books to films. In the first interview, Duras talks of this house in Neau...
Les Lieux de Marguerite Duras
In the course of these two interviews, one filmed in her home in Yvelines, the other in the former Hôtel des Roches Noires in Trouville, Marguerite Duras looks back on the importance of place in her writing, especially in her films. She describes the crucial presence of women in these places, the same women who move from books to films. In the first interview, Duras talks of this house in Neau...
