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Director:
Marguerite Duras
Writer:
Marguerite Duras (writer)
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Release Date:
4 June 1975 (France) more
Genre:
Drama | Fantasy | Romance more
Awards:
3 nominations more
User Comments:
A 'silent' movie permeated by the ghosts of a colonial past more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Delphine Seyrig ... Anne-Marie Stretter
Michael Lonsdale ... Le vice-consul de Lahore (as Michel Lonsdale)
Mathieu Carrière ... L'attaché d'ambassade allemand
Claude Mann ... Michael Richardson

Vernon Dobtcheff ... Georges Crawn
Didier Flamand ... Le jeune invité
Claude Juan ... Le domestique / Servant
Satasinh Manila ... Voix de la mendiante (voice)
Nicole Hiss ... Voix intemporelle (voice)
Monique Simonet ... Voix intemporelle (voice)
Viviane Forester ... Voix intemporelle (voice)
Dionys Mascolo ... Voix intemporelle (voice)
Marguerite Duras ... Voix intemporelle (voice)
Françoise Lebrun ... Voix de la réception (voice)
Benoît Jacquot ... Voix de la réception (voice)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
120 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:L | Portugal:M/12

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The soundtrack of this movie was recorded separately from the movie itself, and later re-used in full in the movie Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (1976). more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Polyester (1981) more

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
A 'silent' movie permeated by the ghosts of a colonial past, 1 March 2007
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Author: regvernon from United Kingdom

I was taken aback at first - the complete absence of spoken dialogue from the cast was a bit unnerving - instead, the film consists of two strands, visual and aural. Visually, the film is slow, languorous and visually sensual. It is almost a 'silent' film. Aurally, the film consists of voices over, providing not so much a narrative as recollections. The voices over (not being a fluent French speaker I had to rely on sub-titles) are telling a story of events that happened in the past whilst the cast act out the events as though they are the ghosts of the buildings in which the events were played out. But there is a story - of a woman married to a French diplomat, living for the time being in Calcutta, who takes lovers to relieve the tedious boredom of social niceties (and the heat, dust and flies). This story is punctuated by one scene in which someone who has fallen in love with her makes his feelings known to her and then, betraying the norms of his society, declares his feelings and his despair, by getting emotional about it - very emotional. I was transfixed. Fortunately, I watched it on DVD having recorded it from BBC4 - so I've got it to watch again, as I shall most certainly do.

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