The Colour of Words
The Colour of Words
1984, French. Directed by Jérôme Beaujour & Jean Mascolo.
This afterword to India Song (Duras' celebrated 1975 film) is organized in several parts. It begins with an interview to Marguerite Duras by Dominique Noguez, an expert in her work; the interview links the film to the two movies whom it's related to: The Ravishment of Lol V. Stein and The Vice-Consul. Several themes are tackled: childhood, autobiographical traces, relationships between differents characters and different films and more. India Song's main actors — Delphine Seyrig and Michael Lonsdale, who played Anne-Marie Stretter and the French vice-consul — join the conversation and talk about their roles and their craft. Marguerite Duras then evokes her memories of the shooting with the composer Carlos D'Alessio and her camera operato Bruno Nuytten. The conversations are punctuated by clips of the film.
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- 1h 3m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- French
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- Released
- 12 June 1984
- Original title
- La couleur des mots
- Country
- France
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The Colour of Words isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 12 June 1984. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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The Colour of Words (1984) was directed by Jérôme Beaujour and Jean Mascolo and stars Marguerite Duras, Dominique Noguez, Delphine Seyrig.