Marin Karmitz - Nuit noire, Calcutta (1964)

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But of all her collaorations with other diectors, by far the most significant, in the light of Dura`s later work, was Nuit noire, Calcutta, the short 25 minute film written in 1964 for Marin Karmitz. Karmitz was originally given money by a pharmaceutical company to make a film advertising a drug for use with alcoholics, but after abandoning the idea
of a documentary, suggested to Duras, who had recently undergone treatment for her own alcoholism, that she might like to write a fiction film on the theme. The result was a first draft of what later turned into the novel Le Vice-Consul.
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Nuit Noire, Clacutta is the story of a writer, Jean (Maurice Garrel), who has come to the coast to complete a novel about the french vice consul in Calcutta. He does not find his task an easy one, and he struggles throughout to find adequate words for his story.
Convinced, as he puts it, that the words do exist somewhere, he is shown repeatedly working on his manuscrippt, deleting sentences, or tearing pages in frustration.
In the process he empties several bottles of whisky (hence the connection with the theme of alcoholism).
As he writes, there is a story unfolding in the outside world that seems to parallel the one he is inventing, although it is not clear which of these is mirroring the other.
The two series of events refuse to converge; but this enables the film to explore the ironical,metaphorical relationship between the imagenery, speculative world of Callcutta and the dunes and mudflats of the Seine estuary at Ouistreham.






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