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India Song

In the 1930s, the wife (Delphine Seyrig) of the French ambassador in India spends her dull, gilded days in the company of many lovers. One of the director’s most well-known films was based on an unproduced play she wrote in the early 1970s, inspired by her visits to India when she was a teenager. Those impressions are not really evident in this film, which was made in France, mostly in the magnificent Château Rothschild. Much of it comes across like a fevered, poetic dream; bittersweet nostalgia in the shadow of colonialism. Exceptionally slow.

1975-France. 120 min. Color. Written and directed by Marguerite Duras. Cast: Delphine Seyrig (Anne-Marie Stretter), Michael Lonsdale (The Vice-Consul of Lahore), Mathieu Carrière (German embassy attaché), Claude Mann, Vernon Dobtcheff, Didier Flamand.

Trivia: Jack Nicholson was allegedly considered for the male lead. Followed by Son Nom de Venise dans Calcutta Désert (1976).

 

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