Song of India

Marguerite Duras
Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière, Claude Mann, Vernon Dobtcheff, Didier Flamand, Marguerite Duras, Francoise Lebrun, Benoît Jacquot
1975
France
Completed
French
120 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known asIndia Song,is aFranceProducerwomen sex,At1975Released in year
。The dialogue language isFrench,Current Douban rating7.5(For reference only)。
The film slowly unfolds with a dawn scene from the Indian countryside, as a woman's voice-over begins to tell the story in a casual yet gentle manner. The story revolves around Anne-Marie Stret (played by Delphine Seyrig) and three characters beside her—her lover Michael Richardson, her enamored vice-consul, and a beggar woman whose life trajectory parallels hers. This beggar woman follows Anna from France's colonies in Southeast Asia, often haunting the embassy's garden, with her several children either selling or dying; after the vice-consul's public infatuation with her is thwarted, he descends into madness, shooting at lepers, dogs, and even himself. Ultimately, he is dismissed from his position. Later, Anna travels to an island with friends, and he tracks her down; overwhelmed by her chaotic emotions, Anna drowns herself. The film consists of 74 shots and over 500 lines of voice-over. The characters on screen do not speak; director Marguerite Duras insisted that all sounds must adhere to the tradition of narration, resulting in this "disjunction of sound and image".