Nocturne Indian is a French film of Alain Corneau left in 1989.

Synopsis

Nightingale, a young French arrives at Bombay, in the search of Xavier, a friend near missing recently on the spot. It leaves on its traces, travelling through a India diverting, approaching with each stage a little more his friend.

Comment

The film, adapted novel éponyme of Antonio Tabucchi, is all in shades and light, and walks the spectator in the middle of India, its hardness and its beauties. Of Bombay to Goa, this search for Xavier becomes an initiatory course then, as for any man in the search of itself.

The film, especially in its night parts, profits from a musical counterpoint (the 2nd movement of the Quintette in C of Schubert) astonishing by its osmosis with the strangeness of environment.

Data sheet

• Title: Night Indian
• Realization: Alain Corneau
• Scenario: Alain Corneau, Louis Gardel, drawn from the Romance éponyme of Antonio Tabucchi
• Photography: Yves Angelo
• Language of turning: English
• Format: Colors - 1,85:1 - Mono - 35 mm
• Comings out date: August 16th 1989 (France), September 8th 1989 (Canada, International festival of film of Toronto)

Distribution

• Jean-Hugues Anglade: Nightingale

• Clementine Célarié: the Frenchwoman with Goa