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India Song (1974)
Director: Marguerite Duras
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From Time Out Film Guide
Duras' main protagonist is Anne-Marie Stretter (Seyrig), a bored consular wife in '30s India, and the film details the languorous desperation that drives her to suicide. But the formal approach to this subject is like nothing before in film history: the 'drama' is entirely aural (a play of off-screen voices blending with Carlos d'Alessio's utterly compulsive score), and the elegant visuals counterpoint it by creating an atmosphere of sumptuous enervation. Many will find it fascinating, not least because its sense of stifled anguish emerges without the least hint of aggression in the style.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Marguerite Duras
Producer: Stéphane Tchalgadjieff
Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Michel Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière, Claude Mann, Vernon Dobtcheff, Didier Flamand, Marguerite Duras, Benoît Jacquot full cast
Duration: 120 mins
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