Marguerite DurasCast
Delphine Seyrig 
Michael Lonsdale 
Mathieu Carrière 
Claude Mann 
Vernon Dobtcheff Didier Flamand
Plot
In 1930s French India, the wife of an ambassador, her lovers and the voices of others speak in a slow, dreamlike piece of colonial decay, where the voices are separate from the images.
Sinekatalog’s take
A hypnotic, formal and haunting film.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.1 / 10 (2,984 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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