“Neither Painful Nor Pleasant, Neither Easy Nor Difficult”: On the Audiovisual Ghosts of Colonial Malaise in Marguerite Duras’ India Song (1975)

"This sense of repression, which comes with an accompanying boredom, is what seizes Duras’ film, rendering it as an oppressive and intolerable portrait of the banality of the Western colonial project from the perspective of those stationed abroad. It is thus, from this historical vantage point, that we can interpret the film as less so a film about actual, existing people as much as it is a film about the ghosts of Western colonialism."