trolley freak
13Oct11
I intend to watch Charulata very soon - maybe even tonight! I love Sound of the Mountain so the similarity makes me even more eager to watch it...
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PolarisDiB
2Feb12
Unrelated game: take the opening shots of this movie, compare with the opening shots of Tree of Life: the camera movements are exactly the same, but the blocking is exactly reverse! Now take the opening shots of this movie, and compare with the opening shots of L'Eclisse. They mean the same thing, but are shot completely differently! -- PolarisDiB
Greg S.
25Jan12
I'm still processing this masterwork so forgive me if this sounds mundane. I will say this though, there's that cliche about how you should be able to watch a film with the sound turned off(or in the case of a foreign film without titles) and still be able to comprehend most of what is going on. That said I can think of few examples more relevant to that ideal than the sequence on the swing. More later. Masterpiece.
trolley freak
14Oct11
Ray's elegant and gently moving story of a neglected housewife in 19th Century India is considered to be one of his best films. Her husband is too busy with the publication of his newspaper to pay her the attention she needs so when a handsome young cousin comes to visit they while away their hours together in conversation and she chastely falls in love with him. Several lovely individual scenes, beautifully filmed..
Andre
21Dec10
"'Cause I'm a woman who has a husband who has a brother Who married one but she loved another You're a tower without the bells You're a negative wishing well" The ending is great but I found some parts a bit derivative. The Rossellini influence (Stromboli, Voyage to Italy) is quite palpable but I guess that increases my appreciation of the movie.
