Let Cinema Go To Its Ruin:
The Cinema of Marguerite Duras
India Song
In India Song, Duras’s sixth and best-known feature, Delphine Seyrig is the seductive Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of the French ambassador to India in the 1930s. In a luxurious mansion, sheltered from colonial horrors, she struggles to keep up appearances as white high society starts to crumble, and the reality of the world outside threatens to impinge.