The Colour of Words

This afterword to India Song Duras celebrated 1975 film is organized in several parts It begins with an interview to Marguerite Duras by Dominique Noguez an expert in her work the interview links the film to the two movies whom its related to The Ravishment of Lol V Stein and The ViceConsul Several themes are tackled childhood autobiographical traces relationships between differents characters and different films and more India Songs main actors Delphine Seyrig and Michael Lonsdale who played AnneMarie Stretter and the French viceconsul join the conversation and talk about their roles and their craft Marguerite Duras then evokes her memories of the shooting with the composer Carlos DAlessio and her camera operato Bruno Nuytten The conversations are punctuated by clips of the film