Work and Words (2022): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2022, Work and Words is a documentary film directed by Jérôme Beaujour, running about 52 minutes.

What it’s about. In this interview with Dominique Noguez, Marguerite Duras talks successively about each of her four short films made in 1979: Césarée, Les Mains négatives, Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne), Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver). She touches briefly on the various subjects dealt with: the return to Césarée of Berenice, repudiated for reasons of state, Jewish wandering, the scandal of the camps in the two Aurelia Steiner. Negative Hands as the colonial data of humanity, a film offered to the blacks and Portuguese who clean up Paris before leaving the place. Marguerite Duras also comments, with excerpts, on the various traveling shots that make up the main plot of each of the short films. And the documentary ends with a few words of epilogue: a real pamphlet by Marguerite Duras against dreams, significantly entitled Work and Words.

Who’s in it. Work and Words stars Marguerite Duras as Herself.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Work and Words page.

If you liked it. Fans of Work and Words tend to enjoy One Direction: This Is Us, Burn the Stage: The Movie, BTS World Tour: Love Yourself - Japan Edition and Senna.