Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
1976 · 114 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 189 VOTES · DIR. Marguerite Duras
Overview
The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.
Dialogue Timeline — 917 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:56 A beggar woman.
00:06:46 That light?
00:16:20 Where is the one in black?
00:23:42 Didn't hear anything else.
00:27:00 - Who's the other man? - A friend passing through.
00:31:39 Yes.
00:34:43 Perhaps he's just seen Madame Stretter... perhaps.
00:38:05 He says: "A thing she had touched".
00:41:48 The nearness of the sea is an advantage.
00:45:27 Death all around you, never quite reaching you.
00:48:57 It took days...
00:52:30 I wish I were you...
00:55:40 Did my husband mention the islands?
00:58:10 I don't understand.
01:00:31 Follows the whites.
01:05:44 And the islands.
01:09:46 It frightens them.
01:12:46 With your death, I believe.
01:16:27 They've got him.
01:30:02 Yes. Deeply absent.
01:33:16 They've arrived.
01:37:26 They're in the mango trees.
01:42:27 Michael Richardson and the young guest
01:51:03 On the beach they found the dressing gown.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed917
Dialogue density8.0 lines / min
First line00:01:56
Final line01:51:03
Production Record
DirectorMarguerite Duras
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes189