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Thu 18 Aug 6.30pm & Sun 21 Aug 2.30pm
Detailing the languorous desperation of a bored consular wife in the waning days of colonial India (the superlative Delphine Seyrig), the drama is entirely aural as Duras uses off-screen voices and a haunting score to interweave the tragic story of Anne-Marie Stretter and a beggar woman.
Dir. Duras, France, 1974, 2h, Subtitled