India Song
Marguerite Duras’s most celebrated work is a mesmerizing, almost incantatory experience with few stylistic precedents in the history of cinema. Within the insular walls of a lavish, decaying embassy in 1930s India, the French ambassador’s wife (Delphine Seyrig) staves off ennui through affairs with multiple men—with the overpowering torpor broken only by a startling eruption of madness. Setting her evocatively decadent visuals to a desynchronized chorus of disembodied voices that comment on and counterpoint the action, Duras creates a haunted-house movie unlike any other.
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Cast
- Delphine Seyrig
- Anne-Marie Stretter
- Michael Lonsdale
- The vice-consul of France in Lahore
- Mathieu Carrière
- The embassy’s young attaché
- Claude Mann
- Michael Richardson
- Vernon Dobtcheff
- Georges Crawn
- Didier Flamand
- The young guest
- Claude Juan
- The domestic
Credits
- Director
- Marguerite Duras
- Written by
- Marguerite Duras
- Director of photography
- Bruno Nuytten
- Sound
- Michel Vionnet
- Assistant director
- Benoît Jacquot
- Second assistant director and photographer
- Jean Mascolo
- Editor
- Solange Leprince
- Assistant editor and script supervisor
- Geneviève Dufour
- Sound mixer
- Antoine Bonfanti
- Original music
- Carlos d’Alessio
- Producer
- Stéphane Tchal Gadjieff
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