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Movie poster: Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (1976)
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Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert

1976 · 114 min Drama
7.0 / 10 · TMDB

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.

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Year 1976
Country France
Genre Drama
Director Marguerite Duras
Runtime 114 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.0/10 (14 votes)

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Duras constructs the film as a radical audiovisual counterpoint, repurposing a complete soundtrack to explore memory and colonial decay. She relies on the dissonance between the heard drama and the seen emptiness, building a haunting archaeology of spaces where life has departed.

What lingers after viewing is the echo of a ghost narrative, a profound commentary on absence itself. The film becomes a monument to what is no longer there. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Marguerite Duras

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Watch in a contemplative state, fully immersed. A cinematic poem for late evening.

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