#1172a: DURAS, Marguerite: India Song (1975)
DURAS, Marguerite (France)
India Song [1975]
India Song [1975]
Spine #1172a
Blu-ray
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, with India Song Duras creates a haunted-house movie unlike any other.
119 Minutes
Color
Monaural
in French
1:66:1
Criterion Release 2023
Color
Monaural
in French
1:66:1
Criterion Release 2023
Director/Writers
Marguerite Duras was 61 when she wrote and directed India Song.
Other Duras films in the Collection:
#1172b: Baxter, Vera Baxter (1977)
Other Duras films in the Collection:
#1172b: Baxter, Vera Baxter (1977)
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Twenty-four page booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ivone Margulies.
Commentary
None.
Alternate
English-language audio track.
Marguerite as She Was
A 2003 portrait of Duras.
Program
From 2020 on the making of India Song, featuring interviews with the cast and crew.
Interview
From 1977 with Duras.
Excerpt
From a 1977 documentary on actor Seyrig.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twenty-four page booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ivone Margulies.
Commentary
None.
Alternate
English-language audio track.
Marguerite as She Was
A 2003 portrait of Duras.
Program
From 2020 on the making of India Song, featuring interviews with the cast and crew.
Interview
From 1977 with Duras.
Excerpt
From a 1977 documentary on actor Seyrig.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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