India Song

1975 · 114 min · FR · 6.2 (66 votes)

Dir. Marguerite Duras · Starring Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière, Claude Mann, Vernon Dobtcheff, Didier Flamand · Music Carlos D'Alessio

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India, 1937. Anne-Marie Stretter is the wife of the French ambassador and leads a solitary yet privileged life in Calcutta. The tedium of her existence is relieved by numerous illicit love affairs with government officials, young men who find her an object of desire and fascination. The Vice Consul is driven insane by his love for her and, expelled from the ambassador’s palace, cries like a sick animal. Life continues for Anne-Marie Stretter, the same tedious existence…

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A languid, dreamlike immersion into colonial ennui. It feels like a fever dream, where unspoken desires and profound loneliness drift through opulent, decaying spaces. The atmosphere is heavy with a beautiful, suffocating melancholy.

melancholicsomberelegiacdisquietingslow-burnarthouseperiod dramaavant-gardeatmosphericcolonial ennuiunrequited loveexistential dreadfemale desire

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