India Song
- Year:
- 1975
- 120 min
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(0.00 / 0 votes)A beggar woman.
- Mad?
- Yes.
Ah yes. I remember.
She follows the rivers.
Comes from Burma.
Not Indian.
She comes from Savannakhet.
Born there.
Walking...
For ten years.
And one day,
in front of her, the Ganges.
- Yes.
- She stays.
That's right.
12 children dead
while she walked towards Bengal?
Yes.
She leaves them.
Sells them, forgets them.
On the way to Bengal,
she goes barren
- Savannakhet, Laos?
- Yes.
At seventeen.
Pregnant... seventeen...
...thrown out by her mother,
goes away...
...asks the way to get lost.
No one knows.
In Calcutta they were together.
- She and the white woman?
- Yes.
During the same years...
- He had followed her to India.
- Yes.
For her, he left everything.
Overnight.
- The night of the ball?
- yes.
Michael Richardson was engaged
to a girl from S. Thala,
Lola Valerie Stein.
They were to marry in the autumn.
Then, the ball,
The ball at S. Thala.
She arrived late...
...in the middle of the night...
...in black.
That ball, such love...
such desire.
That light?
The monsoon.
That dust?
Central Calcutta.
What is that scent of flowers?
Leprosy.
Where are we?
The French Embassy, in India.
- That murmur?
- The Ganges.
When she died, he left India?
Yes.
Her grave is in the English cemetery?
Yes.
- She died out there?
- On the islands.
Found dead one night.
A black Lancia...
...speeds along the road
to Chandernagore.
It was there that she first tried?
Yes.
What are you afraid of?
Anne-Marie Stretter.
They would dance in the evening
They're dancing.
What are you crying about?
I love you...
...to the point of not seeing...
...not hearing...
...dying.
Lepers burst like sacks of dust,
you know.
- Don't suffer?
- No, feel nothing.
She's there by the Ganges,
under the trees.
She has forgotten.
- The French Vice-Consul from Lahore.
- Yes.
Sent to Calcutta in disgrace.
He's come back to the grounds?
Yes.
The tennis court, deserted.
Anne-Marie Stretter's red bicycle.
Where is the one in black?
Out driving.
She comes back with the night.
The black Lancia
has just entered the grounds.
She hunts at night
in the depths of the Ganges.
For food.
Dead on the islands
- Her eyes pierced with light, dead.
- Yes.
Beneath that stone.
Around her, a bend in the Ganges...
Four o'clock.
Darkest night.
- No one's asleep?
- No one.
What heat!
Impossible.
Terrible.
Another storm...
...coming to Bengal...
...coming from the islands.
From the estuaries, inexhaustible...
- What's that sound?
- Her, crying.
- She isn't suffering, is she?
- No.
Leprosy.
Leprosy of the heart.
- Can't bear it?
- No, can't bear it.
India, can't bear it.
She's sleeping.
He loved her more than
anything in the world.
More than that.
Michael Richardson set up a marine
insurance business...
...in Bengal,
to stay with her in India.
Listen...
The Ganges fishermen.
What a night!
What heat!
All-embracing...
Deathly...
From behind the plants in the bar
she watches them.
Only at dawn...
...when the lovers went toward
the door of the ballroom...
...did Lola Valrie Stein
utter a cry.
Didn't hear anything else.
Didn't see anything else.
This crime in her past.
Yes.
Rain.
Yes.
Cool.
Her music,
that was Venice.
A promising artist.
- Never gave up playing?
- Never.
Ana Maria Guardi.
Yes.
The first marriage?
- The first post?
- Savannakhet, Laos.
To a French colonial civil servant.
She's 18.
Oh yes, a river...
...already...
...she's sitting by a river,
and she's looking.
The Mekong.
- She's silent? Crying?
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