Directed by:
Marguerite DurasScreenplay:
Marguerite DurasCinematography:
Bruno NuyttenComposer:
Carlos D'AlessioVOD (1)
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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. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Delphine Seyrig
Lebanon
Best movies:
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Stolen Kisses (1968)
Michael Lonsdale
France
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Mathieu Carrière
West Germany
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Didier Flamand
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Marguerite Duras
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Navire Night (1979)
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Benoît Jacquot
France
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Vernon Dobtcheff
France
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Claude Mann
France
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Françoise Lebrun
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Dionys Mascolo
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Nathalie Granger (1972)
Claude Juan
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Pascal Kané
France
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Jean-Claude Biette
France
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