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India Song
March 8, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
FreeMarguerite Duras Series
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 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.
(Marguerite Duras, Tahiti, French, Tahitan, English w/ Eng subs, 165 min, 2022, Digital)
Cosponsored by the Dept. of Film/Video/Animation /New Genres and the Festival of Films in French