| Description |
2 videodiscs (214 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet. |
| Playing Time |
033400 |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
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polychrome rdacc |
| Description |
Auditory captions |
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digital rdatr |
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optical rdarm |
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mono rdacpc |
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Dolby rdaspc |
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India song 1.37:1 |
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Baxter, Vera Baxter 1.66:1 |
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wide screen rdaar |
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laser optical rdavf |
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NTSC rdabs |
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video file rdaft |
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DVD video |
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region 1 rdare |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 1172.
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| Note |
India song originally released as a motion picture in 1975. |
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Baxter, Vera Baxter originally released as a motion picture in 1977. |
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Special features: 2K digital restorations ; 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. |
| Credits |
India song: director, Marguerite Duras ; producer, Stéphane Tchal Gadjieff ; music, Carlos D'Alessio ; editor, Solange Leprince ; director of photography, Bruno Nuytten. |
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Baxter, Vera Baxter: director, Marguerite Duras ; producer, Stéphane Tchal Gadjieff ; music, Carlos D'Alessio ; editors, Dominique Auvray, Caroline Camus, Roselyne Petit ; directors of photography, Sacha Vierny, Ghislain Cloquet, Jean Mascolo, Bruno Nuytten. |
| Cast |
India song: Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Claude Mann, Mathieu Carrière, Didier Flamand, Vernon Dobtcheff, Claude Juan. |
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Baxter, Vera Baxter: Claudine Gabay, Delphine Seyrig, François Périer, Gérard Depardieu, Noëlle Châtelet, Claude Aufaure, Nathalie Nell. |
| Summary |
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 -- Container. |
| Audience |
MPA rating: NR. |
| System Details |
DVD, region 1, NTSC; widescreen (India song 1.37:1 ; Baxter, Vera Baxter 1.66:1); Dolby mono. |
| Language |
In French; English subtitles. |
| Subject |
Duras, Marguerite -- Film adaptations.
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Diplomatic and consular service, French -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Women -- France -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Marriage -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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India -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Detective and mystery films.
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| Added Author |
Duras, Marguerite, screenwriter, film director.
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Tchal Gadjieff, Stéphane, film producer.
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D'Alessio, Carlos, composer.
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Leprince, Solange, film editor.
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Camus, Caroline, film editor.
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Petit, Roselyne, film editor.
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Nuytten, Bruno, director of photography.
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Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001, director of photography.
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Cloquet, Ghislain, director of photography.
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Mascolo, Jean, director of photography.
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Seyrig, Delphine, 1932-1990, actor.
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Lonsdale, Michaël, 1931-2020, actor.
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Mann, Claude, actor.
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Carrière, Mathieu, actor.
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Flamand, Didier, actor.
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Dobtcheff, Vernon, 1934- actor.
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Juan, Claude, actor.
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Gabay, Claudine, actor.
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Périer, François, actor.
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Depardieu, Gérard, 1948- actor.
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Châtelet, Noëlle, actor.
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Aufaure, Claude, actor.
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Nell, Nathalie, 1950- actor.
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Margulies, Ivone, writer of accompanying material.
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Adaptation of (work): Duras, Marguerite.
Vice-consul.
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Adaptation of (work): Duras, Marguerite.
Vera Baxter ou les Plages de l'Atlantique.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| Added Title |
Baxter, Vera Baxter |
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Two films by Marguerite Duras |
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Baxter, Vera Baxter.
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| Standard No. |
715515281812 |
| Music No. |
15527111 |
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CC3441D-1 The Criterion Collection |
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CC3441D-2 The Criterion Collection |
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