Her Venetian Name in Deserted Calcutta (1976)
- Original title
- Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
- Directed by
- Marguerite Duras
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 15 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film shows the life of Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of the French ambassador to India in the 1930s. It uses the same audio from an earlier film but sets it to entirely different images.
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What happens
Her Venetian Name in Deserted Calcutta (French: Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert) is a 1976 French drama film directed by Marguerite Duras and starring Michael Lonsdale, Delphine Seyrig, Nicole Hiss, Marie-Pierre Thiebaut and Sylvie Nuytten. The film uses the same soundtrack of her 1975 film India Song, but is set to different images alongside an additional ending. It depicts the life of Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of the French ambassador to India circa 1930, who is also a main character in India Song. The film premiered at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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