Woman of the Ganges

director: Benoit Jacquot, Marguerite Duras

original title: La femme du Gange

country: France

year: 1974

running time: 84 min.

synopsis

Marguerite Duras' films cannot be retold because they have no plot. Woman of the Ganges is a uniquely Durasian work, combining film-image and film-sound in one. They are linked only by material coincidence and become an immediate challenge to the viewer. We are probably somewhere in Normandy in a seaside resort. The man who came here is probably looking for memories. After all, the houses look familiar to him and he met a girl here somewhere. The most powerful thing about the writer's film manuscript is her ability to suppress or completely eliminate narrative and psychological techniques. We find ourselves face to face with a screen on which some characters are moving around and saying something. They are asking questions rather than answering any.

biography

Marguerite Duras (1914–1996), the writer, playwright, screenwriter, and eventually director entered the world of film in the second half of the 1950s. Initially, she adapted her own works or wrote original scripts. Her independent film directing work begins in the 1970s. She was a completely original artist who brought modernism to cinema.

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director:

Benoit Jacquot, Marguerite Duras

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