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Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (1976)
Directed by Marguerite Duras
Overview
The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras’ 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador’s wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It’s the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.
Length 114 minutes
Actors
Delphine Seyrig | Michael Lonsdale | Sylvie Nuytten | Nicole Hiss | Marie-Pierre Thiebaut | Satasinh Manila | Monique Simonet | Viviane Forrester | Dionys Mascolo | Marguerite Duras | Françoise Lebrun | Benoît Jacquot | Nicole-Lise Bernheim | Kevork Kutudjan | Daniel Dobbels | Jean-Claude Biette | Marie Odile Briot | Pascal Kané