Name: India Song

Author: Marguerite Duras
Year: 1973
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9780802131355
0802131352
Unseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Làhore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of doomed love to the strains of a dying colonialism. Originally commissioned as a play for Britain'€™s National Theatre,India Song was made into a film that premiered at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. American Cinematographer praised it for its '€œimaginative use of voices creating an echo chamber effect that perpetuates the past,'€ and Molly Haskell called it '€œMarguerite Duras'€™ most perfectly realized film, the most feminine film I have seen, a rarefied work of lyricism, despair, and passion, imbued with a kind of primitive emotional hunger that is all the more moving for its austere setting.'€
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