Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life.
Cinematography
Static tableaux that make stillness devastatingly sexy.
Sound
Disembodied voices narrating what characters never say aloud.
Acting
Delphine Seyrig: one languid glance contains entire novels.
Director
Marguerite Duras
Delphine Seyrig
Anne-Marie Stretter
Michael Lonsdale
Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
Mathieu Carrière
L'Attaché d'Ambassade Allemand
Claude Mann
Michael Richardson
Vernon Dobtcheff
Georges Crawn
Didier Flamand
Le Jeune Invité
Nicole Hiss
Voix Intemporelle (voice)
Viviane Forrester
Voix Intemporelle (voice)
Dionys Mascolo
Voix Intemporelle (voice)
Marguerite Duras
Voix Intemporelle (voice)
Françoise Lebrun
Voix de la Réception (voice)
Benoît Jacquot
Voix de la Réception (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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