SINGAPORE PREMIERE
2K Restoration
Director: Marguerite Duras
Runtime: 119 mins
Country: France
Language: French with English subtitles
Rating: M18

Synopsis

Beyond her extraordinary literary career, Marguerite Duras has also carved her own space in cinema. Her most critically acclaimed film, India Song, is a dreamlike, elliptical experience centred on Anne-Marie Stretter (Delphine Seyrig), the wife of the French Ambassador to India in 1930s Calcutta.

Drifting through a world of ennui, Anne-Marie passes the time through a series of fleeting affairs with multiple men. The non-synchronous relationship between sound and image casts her private life as a voyeuristic encounter, which becomes a spectacle in itself. Yet this spectacle is shadowed by the ghosts of empire, as the radiant interiors of colonial residences begin to echo Anne-Marie’s inner emptiness. India Song unfolds like an ornate dollhouse, meticulously arranged on the surface, but filled with solitude and quiet melancholy within — bidding farewell to a bygone era.

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