Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (1976)

7.2/10 114 min Drama

Overview

The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.

Cast

Delphine Seyrig

Anne-Marie Stretter

Michael Lonsdale

The Vice Consul of Lahore

Nicole Hiss

Viviane Forrester

Dionys Mascolo

Marguerite Duras

Françoise Lebrun

Benoît Jacquot

Nicole-Lise Bernheim

Jean-Claude Biette

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