{"product_id":"two-films-by-marguerite-duras-blu-ray","title":"Two Films by Marguerite Duras (BLU-RAY)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMarguerite 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 an 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIndia Song\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBaxter, Vera Baxter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e embody Duras’s singular multisensory approach, with each opening up new spaces for the expression of women’s interior worlds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndia Song\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarguerite Duras’s most celebrated work is a mesmerizing, almost incantatory experience with few stylistic precedents in the history of cinema. Within the insular walls of a lavish, decaying embassy in 1930s India, the French ambassador’s wife (Delphine Seyrig) staves off ennui through affairs with multiple men—with the overpowering torpor broken only by a startling eruption of madness. Setting her evocatively decadent visuals to a desynchronized chorus of disembodied voices that comment on and counterpoint the action, with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndia Song\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Duras creates a haunted-house movie unlike any other.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBaxter, Vera Baxter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarguerite Duras reunited with \u003cem\u003eIndia Song\u003c\/em\u003e collaborators Delphine Seyrig and composer Carlos d’Alessio for \u003cem\u003eBaxter, Vera Baxter,\u003c\/em\u003e a hypnotically unsettling journey into one woman’s existential emptiness. Ensconced in a sprawling rental villa, the world-weary Vera Baxter (Claudine Gabay) receives visits from two women, including a mysterious stranger (Seyrig) to whom she recounts a shocking story about her marriage, the way she lives, and the reasons for her malaise. Setting her languid images to d’Alessio’s incongruously breezy, endlessly looping score, Duras fashions a quietly shattering portrait of marriage as a kind of prison.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\"\u003eSPECIAL EDITION FEATURES\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew 2K digital restorations, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eMarguerite as She Was\u003c\/em\u003e, a 2003 portrait of director Marguerite Duras\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterview from 1977 with Duras\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExcerpt from a 1977 documentary on actor Delphine Seyrig\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew English subtitle translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePLUS: An essay by film scholar Ivone Margulies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew cover by Michael Boland\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Unobstructed View","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42456737448136,"sku":"CC3440BD","price":79.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/8486\/3688\/products\/twofilmsbymargueritedurasbd.jpg?v=1669236371","url":"https:\/\/videomatica.com\/es\/products\/two-films-by-marguerite-duras-blu-ray","provider":"Videomatica Ltd (since 1983)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}