Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert(1976)

movie - first aired/released 1976-06-02 - 114 min - audience 7.2

Drama

Directed by Marguerite Duras

The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.