France,
1975, 120 min
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)
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