India Song
India Song is a play of Marguerite Duras whom it adapted and carried out itself for the cinema, film left in 1975.
The play
Marguerite Duras wrote India Song at the request of Peter Hall in August 1972 for a setting in scene in London. The part takes again the topic and the characters of the Vice-consul while modifying perception radically.
The film
Synopsis
In the India of the Years 1930, with the embassy of France of Calcutta, voices evoke the memory of a woman now missing and buried with the cemetery of the city: Anne-Marie Stretter, formerly wife of the ambassador… One evening, at the time of a reception to the embassy and in the estival torpor of monsoon, the vice-consul of France with Lahore had shouted his love with Anne-Marie with the right in the middle of the reception…
Comment
Marguerite Duras created the event and the surprise… Some did not manage to explain how, with “step large-thing” (an argument ultramince for a film entirely made in Parisian suburbs), Duras succeeds in recreating at the same time the atmosphere of the India of the Années 1930 and, at the same time, that, timeless, of a drama of insane love of a supreme elegance. The images of Delphine Seyrig, valsant langoureusement on the music of Carlos d' Alessio, became mythical. Its male partners are not remains about it and heroin is included/understood: one could not say who, of Michael Lonsdale and Claude Mann, is most tempting. The narration durassienne, sublimated by the dark moire and mordorée photograph of Bruno Nuytten, leaves the memory indelible and throbbing of the small passionately romantic death…
Data sheet
Distribution
Distinctions
- 1975 : Price of the French Association of the Cinema of Art and Test with Cannes
- 1976: Grand Prix of the Academy of the Cinema
Around film
- music of Carlos d' Alessio heard by Marguerite Duras : To tell the truth, I do not know too much from where it comes Carlos d' Alessio, one says Argentinian country, but when I heard his music for the first time, I saw that it came from the country from everywhere, I saw levelled borders, disappeared defenses, freedom of movement of the rivers, music, desire, and I saw that I was as well this Argentinian nation as him, Carlos d' Alessio, of this Vietnam, of the Southern Pacific, which joy, I was happy, and I asked him to make the music for a film of me, it said yes, I said without money, and he said yes, and me I made the images and the words because of the white that I left him for his music with him and I explained to him as this film occurred in a country which was unknown for us, as well to him as to me, the colonial Indies, the twilight extent, of leprosy and hunger of the lovers of Calcutta, and than we must invent them both in entirety. We did it. And in this way, the thing was done, we made completely together, him and me, this film of the title India Song and the film were finished and it left with our hands, and it left us, and it is traversing the world containing forever in its being the torn off painful glares of our body, and leaving us always private, and in the same way always private of ourselves together doing it, us leaving there, to make other musics, other films, other songs, and with always us to like also extremely, so much, if you knew.
Discography
- 1987 : Home Movies preceded by the topics of the film India Song , musics of Carlos d' Alessio interpreted with the piano by Carlos d' Alessio and Raphaël Sanchez, realization of Carlos d' Alessio assisted of Denis Lepeut, 1 CD Song of the World, LDX 274864.
- 1991: India Song and other film musics , 1 CD Crystal box Song of the World, 274818.
Videotex
- 2005 : India Song with a postface criticizes the Color of the words , 1 DVD STAKE, area 2, lasted total 183 mn, Éditions BJV (Benoit Video Jacob).
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