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 (Delphine Seyrig) 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.
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TITLE...........: India Song (1975)
STARS...........: Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière, Claude Mann
DIRECTOR........: Marguerite Duras
WRITERS.........: Marguerite Duras
GENRE...........: Mystery, Drama
TOMATOMETER.....: 83/65
IMDB SCORE......: 6.1
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073166
RUNTIME.........: 1h 59mn
SIZE............: 7.70 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 9000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1480x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.37:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: French FLAC 1.0
SUBTITLES.......: ENG, CHI
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray, French DVD
ENCODE DATE.....: 2025-08-12
CHECKSUM........: 72EA389F4C050EF743534D2318846173
Extras
• La Couleur des mots: India Song (1984) [French DVD]