Marguerite Duras - India Song (1975)

Marguerite Duras - India Song (1975) French with English subs http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073166 http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/8753/india9ih.jpg Gallic avant-gardists make great zombie movies. Rivette saw the screwball comedy of the bourgeois morts vivant in Celine and Julie Go Boating, Marguerite Duras sees a slow, aching valse in which the soundtrack goes its own way. A vanishing sun like a blood drop, tennis courts, chandeliers, silk and lace, an imperial clock. "What is that scent of flowers?" "Leprosy." The camera prowls the embassy villa, down staircases and past lush foliage while soft murmurs drift from elsewhere: "Can’t bear it? No, can’t bear it. India, can’t bear it." People finally materialize, swells in Thirties gowns and tuxes, vice-consuls, ambassadors, attachés and servants, Duras’s ghosts. Delphine Seyrig in a shimmering crimson frock holds court, sort of, taking languid waltzing turns with Claude Mann, Mathieu Carrière, Vernon Dobtcheff and Didier Flamand. Do they still exist when the camera is not on them? The eye-watering abstraction is from Last Year at Marienbad, the horror of memory, of muted passion and muted suffering -- "rien" is a horrifying word, "The only remedy: Immobility." One of the atrophied ghouls (Michael Lonsdale) rebels with emotion and the soundtrack synchronizes long enough for him to be ousted, screaming, while his object of desire stands before a wall-sized mirror. (Ophüls originally envisioned Madame de... as a story enacted by reflections on polished glass.) In this bifurcated journey, images are pinned in place while sounds travel to Rangoon, the Gangues, Lahore, Savannakhet and Ceylon, wherever displaced longing and colonial guilt are needed. An archaic foxtrot swoons over and over, "a sort of pain is linked to music..." Duras composes tableaux in which drifting incense smoke or a ceiling fan become the most dynamic players, yet her glossy, rarefied screen seems to gradually accumulate humidity and odors. A mysteriously sensory picture, not existentialism but hypnotism. http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/8877/snapshot200601271932558sw.jpg http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/1392/snapshot200601271933093fa.jpg http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/1462/snapshot200601271933327ly.jpg -----not my rip------- File Size (in bytes):...........................1,460,527,104 --- Video Information --- Video Codec Name:...............................XviD 1.1.0 Beta 2 Duration (hh:mm:ss):............................1:51:29 Frame Count:....................................167202 Frame Width (pixels):...........................576 Frame Height (pixels):..........................416 Aspect Ratio:...................................1.385 Frames Per Second:..............................25.000 Video Bitrate (kbps):...........................1615 ......MPEG-4......B-VOP........................ Quality Factor (bits/pixel)/frame:..............0.270" --- Audio Information --- Audio Codec:....................................0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Sample Rate (Hz):.........................48000 Audio Bitrate(kbps):............................119 Audio Bitrate Type ("CBR" or "VBR"):............VBR Audio Channel Count:............................2 Freakyflicks is a free and open community dedicated to preserving and sharing cinematic art in the digital era. Our goal is to disseminate such works of art to the widest audience possible through the channels provided by P2P technology. The Freakyflicks collection is limited to those films that have played an exceptional role in the history of cinema and its progression in becoming a great art. Films that are usually described as classic, cult, arthouse and avant-garde. If you have films that fit this description feel free to share them and participate in our community. All you need do is include this tag in your upload and join us at the forum to announce your release. http://freakyflicks.proboards54.com 'If we all seed just 1:1, give at least what we take, this torrent will NEVER DIE

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 rambam1776 (2009-07-15)

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