Song of India (original Film of the Same Name)
About This Novel
"Song of India" edited by Marguerite Duras is the most successful film in Duras's career as a film director. Like "Hiroshima Mon Amour", it has become one of her international business cards. This book is the script of the film, which was published in 1973 and made into a film of the same name by Duras two years later. The film was shortlisted for the Cannes Film Festival that year and won the French Experimental Art Film Association Award and the Film Academy Award. The story revolves around Anne-Marie Street, the wife of the French Ambassador to India, and the three characters around her - her lover Mike Richardson, the vice-consul who is obsessed with her, and a female beggar whose life path parallels hers. Anna is followed from the French colonies in Southeast Asia by this beggar; the vice-consul, frustrated by his publicized infatuation with her, slips into madness, shooting lepers, dogs, and even himself. At the end of her life, Duras said that "Song of India" was her only film. "What "Song of India" shows is myself. There is no mistake." This film is both the author's film work and the author's poetic work. It captivated the festival, I know. If it competed, we would, without a doubt, give it the Palme d'Or.
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