Directed by:
Marguerite DurasScreenplay:
Marguerite DurasCinematography:
Bruno NuyttenComposer:
Carlos D'AlessioVOD (1)
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Marguerite Duras’s most celebrated work is a mesmerizing, almost incantatory experience with few stylistic precedents in the history of cinema. Within the insular walls of a lavish, decaying embassy in 1930s India, the French ambassador’s wife (Delphine Seyrig) staves off ennui through affairs with multiple men - with the overpowering torpor broken only by a startling eruption of madness. Setting her evocatively decadent visuals to a desynchronized chorus of disembodied voices that comment on and counterpoint the action, Duras creates a haunted-house movie unlike any other. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![Delphine Seyrig](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/930/162930626_770874.png)
Delphine Seyrig
Lebanon
Best movies:
![Michael Lonsdale](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/363/162363245_51fe71.png)
Michael Lonsdale
France
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
The Name of the Rose (1986)
Order of the Daisy (1967)
![Mathieu Carrière](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/424/162424222_be2f13.jpg)
Mathieu Carrière
West Germany
Best movies:
The Aviator's Wife (1981)
Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu (1973)
Navire Night (1979)
![Didier Flamand](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/527/163527649_2c7b55.png)
Didier Flamand
France
Best movies:
Animal (1977)
Wings of Desire (1987)
The Chorus (2004)
![Marguerite Duras](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/087/189/87189946_cf67a8.jpg)
Marguerite Duras
Best movies:
Navire Night (1979)
India Song (1975)
The Lorry (1977)
![Benoît Jacquot](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/946/159946594_c08b40.jpg)
Benoît Jacquot
France
Best movies:
Navire Night (1979)
Chinese Puzzle (2013)
India Song (1975)
![Vernon Dobtcheff](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/494/494695_35970a.jpg)
Vernon Dobtcheff
France
Best movies:
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
If Tomorrow Comes (1986) (series)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
![Claude Mann](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/886/157886912_784236.jpg)
Claude Mann
France
Best movies:
Happy New Year (1973)
The Sleeping Car Murder (1965)
Army of Shadows (1969)
![Françoise Lebrun](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/594/165594389_20442c.jpg)
Françoise Lebrun
Best movies:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
The Girl Without Hands (2016)
L'Impure (1991) (TV movie)
Dionys Mascolo
Best movies:
My Little Loves (1974)
India Song (1975)
Nathalie Granger (1972)
Claude Juan
Best movies:
India Song (1975)
Pascal Kané
France
Best movies:
India Song (1975)
Jean-Claude Biette
France
Best movies:
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
India Song (1975)