
The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
India Song
When
Wed 25 Jun 2025
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Constructed, in Duras’ words, “like a poem”, this is the writer-director’s most haunting and famous film and is, along with Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman…, one of two iconic works of feminist cinema Seyrig completed in 1975. In 1930s Calcutta, the elegant wife (Seyrig) of the French ambassador yearns for love but is bored with the men around her as well as her oppressive bourgeois surroundings.
Representing ’70s (post)modern cinema at its finest, the film’s languorous visuals and multilayered voiceover are seemingly dissociated but make for an unforgettable, hypnotic and intense experience. With Michael Lonsdale and Claude Mann.
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Australia's longest-running film society, Melbourne Cinémathèque screens significant works of international cinema in the medium they were created, the way they would have originally screened.
Melbourne Cinémathèque is self-administered, volunteer-run, not-for-profit and membership-driven.
