Container of (work) : India song (Motion picture) Container of (work) : Baxter, Vera Baxter (Motion picture)
Notes:
India song: Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carriére, Claude Juan, Didier Flamand, Claude Mann, Vernon Dobtcheff. Baxter, Vera Baxter: Claudine Gabay, Delphine Seyrig, François Périer, Gérard Depardieu, Noëlle Châtelet, Claude Aufaure, Nathalie Nell. India song: Originally released as a motion picture in 1975. Baxter, Vera Baxter: Originally released as a motion picture in 1977. India song based on the novel "Le Vice-Consul" by Marguerite Duras. Baxter, Vera Baxter based on the novel "Vera Baxter ou les Plages de l'Atlantique" by Marguerite Duras. Special features: 2K digital restorations with uncompressed monaural soundtracks ; newly discovered India song alternate English-language audio track, directed by Marguerite Duras ; Marguerite as she was, a 2003 portrait of Duras; program from 2020 on the making of India song, featuring interviews with the cast and crew ; interview from 1977 with Duras ; excerpt from a 1977 documentary on actor Delphine Seyrig ; new English subtitle translations ; an essay by film scholar Ivone Margulies. India song: Full screen (1.37:1). Baxter, Vera Baxter: Wide screen (1.66:1). Accompanied by booklet (20 pages) containing an essay by film scholar Ivone Margulies.
Contents:
Disc 1. India Song (119 min.) -- Disc 2. Baxter, Vera Baxter (95 min.).
Summary:
Marguerite Duras had already established herself as one of the major figures of postwar French literature when she launched an equally fascinating and unclassifiable career in cinema, translating her elliptical, experimental style to the screen through the unprecedented fusion of hypnotic, highly stylized imagery and radically disjunctive sound. Boldly reimagining the possibilities of dialogue, music, silence, and architectural space, the tantalizing, sphinxlike evocations of soul-deep female malaise India Song and Baxter, Vera Baxter embody Duras's singular multisensory approach, with each opening up new spaces for the expression of women's interior worlds -- Container.
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