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2 videodiscs (119, 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm)
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Criterion collection #1172
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India song: Originally released as a motion picture in 1975
Disc 1. India Song (119 min.) -- Disc 2. Baxter, Vera Baxter (95 min.)
Marguerite Duras had already established herself as one of the major figures of postwar French literature when she launched an equally fascinating and unclassifiable career in cinema, translating her elliptical, experimental style to the screen through the unprecedented fusion of hypnotic, highly stylized imagery and radically disjunctive sound. Boldly reimagining the possibilities of dialogue, music, silence, and architectural space, the tantalizing, sphinxlike evocations of soul-deep female malaise India Song and Baxter, Vera Baxter embody Duras's singular multisensory approach, with each opening up new spaces for the expression of women's interior worlds --
Baxter, Vera Baxter: Originally released as a motion picture in 1977
This Blu-ray disc requires a Blu-ray player will not play in standard DVD players
Special features: 2K digital restorations with uncompressed monaural soundtracks ; newly discovered India song alternate English-language audio track, directed by Marguerite Duras ; Marguerite as she was, a 2003 portrait of Duras; program from 2020 on the making of India song, featuring interviews with the cast and crew ; interview from 1977 with Duras ; excerpt from a 1977 documentary on actor Delphine Seyrig ; new English subtitle translations ; an essay by film scholar Ivone Margulies
India song: screenwriter and director, Marguerite Duras ; director of photography, Bruno Nuytten ; editor, Solange Leprince ; original music, Carlos d'Alessio
Baxter, Vera Baxter: screenwriter and director, Marguerite Duras ; director of photography, Sacha Vierny ; editors, Dominique Auvray, Caroline Camus, Roselyne Petit ; original music, Carlos d'Alessio
India song: Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carriére, Claude Juan, Didier Flamand, Claude Mann, Vernon Dobtcheff
Baxter, Vera Baxter: Claudine Gabay, Delphine Seyrig, François Périer, Gérard Depardieu, Noëlle Châtelet, Claude Aufaure, Nathalie Nell
MWT rating: NR ; MPA rating: NR
Blu-ray disc, region A; wide screen (India song 1.37:1 ; Baxter, Vera Baxter 1.66:1); Dolby mono
Blu-ray, widescreen (India song 1.37:1 ; Baxter, Vera Baxter 1.66:1)
French dialogue; English subtitles