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

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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