The deserted seaside resorts in winter are perfect places to remember. Perhaps the people we left behind live there. They are guarded by a special mad guard, he wanders along the edge of the surf, sometimes lost in space and time, then to find his place and his hour again. This is Gerard Depardieu's character. Sometimes it protects the movement of the wave, sometimes the movement of light, sometimes cold colorless sand.
On the deserted seaside resort ends another great French film - OUT1. Many hours of the mysterious plot rest, as if in a dead end, in the territory of memories, where they gradually fade. The plot of “Women from the Ganges”, on the contrary, is unable to leave this space, to go where life goes on as usual.
There are four people and four ghosts. The main character is between these worlds, moving from one to another. In the world of men he wants nothing more, and a man without desires is almost a ghost, almost a shadow. You have to take one step and burn the bridges. This fire is represented in the film by a deafening siren, which finally frees the hero from the real world, leaving him far behind. 'Far away' is what they say about the fire, although the siren sounds under the windows of the deserted hotel.
The hero is left to walk on the beach, talk with the past, listen to the melody of lost love, just sit on the sand and watch the guard wandering along the edge of the surf.
There are two more female characters in the film - they are not humans or ghosts, they are voices telling us the story. We understand that they have their own history, which remains a mystery to us. We're only guessing about her. Perhaps the key to it is in the life of the author, about which I know almost nothing. It is safe to say that love, if there is one in this film, which, after all, like all Duras films and books, is a tale of love, can only be found in the narrow space that separates these two sad voices. In the world of characters, instead of love, it is only an echo of love, whose sound is the flesh and meaning of this film.