India Song

film by Duras [1975]

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India Song is a 1975 film directed by Marguerite Duras. Duras, an internationally recognized French novelist, screenwriter, and film director, also wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed film Hiroshima mon amour. India Song offers a static and moody portrayal of the wife of the French ambassador in Calcutta and her relationships with several lovers. The film is an adaptation of Duras's own play.1

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Delphine Seyrig
…femme fatale in Marguerite Duras’s India Song and the title character in Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles—she usually worked with women directors. Despite her many films, Seyrig considered herself to be primarily a stage actress. She performed in both classic and contemporary plays, often with…
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…femme fatale in Marguerite Duras’s India Song and the title character in Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles—she usually worked with women directors. Despite her many films, Seyrig considered herself to be primarily a stage actress. She performed in both classic and contemporary plays, often with…
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