DCP | 1975 | Directed by Marguerite Duras | France | 120 mins | In French with English subtitles.
The downfall of Anne-Marie, wife of the French ambassador in 1930s Calcutta, is told through off-screen whispers, while on screen she drifts through a decaying mansion, driven by ennui to a dalliance with a disgraced diplomat. India Song is an “elliptical dream poem” (Travis Crawford) and a “rarefied work of lyricism, despair, and passion, imbued with a kind of primitive emotional hunger” (Molly Haskell). DCP from Janus.
Part of the “French 75” series featuring a trio of Francophone films marking their 50th anniversaries.
