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Colonial guilt: India Song and Marguerite Duras
It doesn’t come as too great a surprise to learn that Carl T. Dreyer is Marguerite Duras’s favourite director. There is that famous sequence in Dreyer’s Vampyr in which the hero wanders into a barn, deserted but for shadows on the wall, coupled and dancing …