India Song + Q&A
Thu 01 MaySpecial screening for the 50th anniversary of the film’s release.
Intro and Q&A in English with Dr. Alice Blackhurst (University of Edinburgh)
Delphine Seyrig plays the bored and promiscuous wife of a French diplomat (Michael Lonsdale) in Marguerite Duras’s Calcutta based drama, now fully restored to its original glory. Set in the 1930s, the tedium of her existence is relieved when she embarks on a string of affairs, all of which are known but ignored by her husband. From intense connections to brief encounters, Duras creates a world in which the off-screen voice represents the ghostly presence of a time that once was.
Dr Alice Blackhurst is a scholar, writer and the author of Luxury, Sensation and the Moving Image (Oxford: 2021). In 2024 her introduction to an English-language edition of Marguerite Duras's collected film writings, My Cinema, was published by Another Gaze. She currently teaches in the French and Intermediality programs at the University of Edinburgh and is finishing a book for Columbia University Press on re-reading Duras's L'Amant (The Lover).