Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation with Marguerite Duras

On March 3, 1996, Marguerite Marguerite Duras, the French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker died in Paris.

In 1975 Melinda met with Duras to discuss India Song, Duras's sixth film.

“In India Song I pose, in principle, the sovereignty of Woman. I hope I have demonstrated it or made a didactic film,” says Marguerite Duras of her sixth film, as if to silence those who reproach her for a cerebral or theoretical approach. For within her own framework, such an approach belongs to the masculine world and Duras wishes to define the distinction between male and female and to place herself firmly in the latter category.

 

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