Marguerite Duras – Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert AKA Her Venetian Name in Deserted Calcutta (1976)
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Four voices attempt to reconstruct the story of the Vice-Consul of Lahore and Anne-Marie Stretter. The soundtrack is that of India Song while the images take the viewer through the empty rooms and the garden of a ruined palace.
La Cinémathèque française wrote:
A mock remake of India Song, using the locations and music of the original film to question memory and the passage of time. In the ruins of the Rothschild palace, the actors have disappeared and are replaced by ghostly visions, voices interspersed with period melodies. From panoramic to travelling shots, Duras works on the recollection, the grace contained in the images that remain, and favours the stripping down to bare essentials. It’s a mesmerising journey into how words resist and live on.
‘The referent would then be no more than the memory of the filmic material. A volatile, bottomless memory, carried only by an impulse to write whose intensities are consumed without rest. An evocation that endlessly carries its material repercussions’.
(Jean-Pierre Oudart)
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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 ambassador to India circa 1930, who is also a main character in India Song.
Marguerite Duras - 1976 - Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert [DVD-PAL].mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
Size: 1.61 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 720x560 ~> 767x560
Aspect ratio: 1.371
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
Bit rate: 1 836 kb/s
BPP: 0.182
Audio
#1: French 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Main)
Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French
