India Song
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France · 1975
Rated NC-17 · 2h 0m
Director Marguerite Duras
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière, Claude Mann
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Romance
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India, 1937. Anne-Marie Stretter is the wife of the French ambassador and leads a solitary yet privileged life in Calcutta. The monotony of her existence is relieved by numerous illicit love affairs with government officials, young men who find her an object of desire and fascination. Yet life continues on for Anne-Marie, the same tedious existence…
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