
India Song (1975)
Directed by Marguerite Duras
Genre: Avant-garde / Experimental, Feminist Film, Psychological Drama
Runtime: 120 min
Country: France
Language: French
Color: Color (Eastmancolor)
Synopsis:
When Anne-Marie (Delphine Seyrig), the wife of the French vice-consul, grows weary of her oppressive life in 1930s India, she compulsively makes love so as to forget her situation. Her husband (Michel Lonsdale) is aware of her affairs but understands the cause of them and affects not to notice. Curiously, the mansion—so strongly evocative of India—where most of the movie was filmed, was just outside of Paris.
The antithesis of Duras' text
In the writing, all is inviting, intimate, sensual--one can feel Duras
aching to press the reader close to her flesh, to attempt to bring us
inside her. The movie is bewilderingly flat, unabsorbing--"Brechtian." Duras states and presents rather than
whispers and bewitches. The highlight is Michel Lonsdale's
rendering of the emotional center of Duras' story--the Vice Consul,
driven mad by love. Duras believed that there would be nothing
more dolorous or horrific than the inarticulate cries of pain that
escape this onetime definition of manhood. As Lonsdale
produces the Vice Consul's shrieks, you know she's right.



the first time duras's film on mule, maybe this is the only chance to see duras's own film. we need more and more peoples on this amazing one!
and another 5 films/shorts by duras~~~probably will appear soon