India Song

This screening is part of French Film Festival, featuring a programme of recent and vintage French films covering a range of themes and genres. See three films from the French Film Festival for the special price of £21 – just book them together and the discount will be applied at checkout.

Marguerite Duras’s most celebrated work is a mesmerising experience with few stylistic precedents in the history of cinema.

"A mesmerising experience..."

Within the insular walls of a lavish, decaying embassy in 1930s India, the French ambassador’s wife (Delphine Seyrig) staves off ennui through affairs with multiple men –with the overpowering torpor broken only by a startling eruption of madness.