Cannes 2024 – Jia Zhangke, Leos Carax : Ruin and haunting

For cinema lovers who are already in Paris or who will be this week, we strongly recommend that, in order to soothe the possible FOMO of not being in Cannes, they assiduously attend the Cinémathèque Française’s complete retrospective of Marguerite Duras’ films, which is being screened there until the end of May. Among them, we recommend one in particular: Her Venetian Name in Deserted Calcutta(1976), a brilliant and liminal film, in which she uses the entire soundtrack of her previous film, India Song (1975)...