India Song (Duras, 1975): ICA Cinema, 4pm
This film is part of the excellent Marguerite Duras season at the ICA (full details here) and is also being screened on August 14th.
Chicago Reader review:
There's
so little to the subjects in Marguerite Duras' films—here it's that old
favorite, doomed love among the rotting aristocracy—that it's easy to
think of her as the most perverse of minimalists. But Duras' thin dramas
are perceived through layers upon layers of style—she's the Busby
Berkeley of structuralism. In this 1974 film, she uses constantly
shifting tenses, rigorous patterns of camera movement (and stillness),
acting boiled down to broad isolated gestures, nonsynchronous dialogue
(often between characters who don't appear in the visuals), and a dozen
other radical devices. The result is a film that is extremely boring in
rather fascinating ways, well worth seeing for those with a tolerance
for stasis and a taste for French abstraction.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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