Duras

British  

/ dyra /

noun

1. Marguerite , real name Marguerite Donnadieu . 1914–96, French novelist born in Giadinh, Indochina (now in Vietnam). Her works include The Sea Wall (1950), Practicalities (1990), Écrire (1993), and the script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1960)

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Example Sentences

Fiction at Sundance this year, “Trokas Duras” is a lush depiction of a day in the life of a day laborer, or jornalero, in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times

At the photoshoot for this story, two of the actors from “Trokas Duras,” Nancy and El Barrio, shared what it was like acting in a film for the first time and how deeply they connected to their characters.

From Los Angeles Times

“This film was never made for people who don’t get it,” says Jazmin Garcia, the director behind “Trokas Duras,” a love letter to L.A.’s jornalero community and the trucks that serve as containers for their survival, dreams and desires.

From Los Angeles Times

As he sat on set, waiting for Nancy to get her hair braided in long plaits before they got their photograph taken in front of the kind of truck that is so symbolic in “Trokas Duras,” he began casually strumming his guitar, then belted out a full-bodied rendition of “La Rubia y La Morena,” the classic from Los Dinámicos Del Norte.

From Los Angeles Times

“Trokas Duras” is told through lyrical vignettes representing different parts of the larger jornalero’s story connected through a cast of characters.

From Los Angeles Times