Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life.
Cinematography
Static tableaux that make stillness devastatingly sexy.
Sound
Disembodied voices narrating what characters never say aloud.
Acting
Delphine Seyrig: one languid glance contains entire novels.

Director
Marguerite Duras
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Duras wrote the script in three weeks after her lover suggested she direct herself, having never made a feature before.
The entire 'India' was filmed in a French château; the colonial fantasy collapses because it was never real to begin with.
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