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Phantom India

Louis Malle

France

1969

363 minutes

Color

1.33:1

French

Synopsis

Louis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking Phantom India the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as occasional outrage, intrigue, and joy.

Cast

NarratorLouis Malle

Credits

DirectorLouis Malle
ProducerNouvelles Éditions de Films
ScreenplayLouis Malle
CinematographyÉtienne Becker, Louis Malle and Jean-Claude Laureux
EditingSuzanne Baron

From the Current

Eclipse Series 2:
The Documentaries of Louis Malle

by Michael Koresky Apr 23, 2007

Deservedly celebrated for the astonishingly diverse array of narrative features he made over a nearly forty-year career, Louis Malle was in fact even more multifaceted than this body of work suggests. For alongside such well-known, and disparate, dramas as the cool noir Elevator to the Gallows...

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