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Mushrooms

Chatrak

India, France, Sri Lanka

2011

90 Min
Color
1.85:1
Bengali, Icelandic
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DIR Vimukthi Jayasundara

EXEC Vinod Lahoti

SCR Vimukthi Jayasundara

DP Channa Deshapriya

CAST Paoli Dam, Sudip Mukherjee, Tómas Lemarquis, Sumeet Thakur

ED Julie Béziau

PROD DES Arup Ghosh

MUSIC Roman Dymny

SOUND Dana Farzanehpour, Franck Desmoulins, Roman Dymny

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), Toronto (Visions), Stockholm (Asian Images)

Synopsis

In a forest, near a border, a young Bengali and a European soldier attempt to get the better of one another. In Calcutta, Rahul, an architect who had gone off to build a career in Dubai, begins a huge construction site. He is reunited with his girlfriend, Paoli, who has long awaited his homecoming, living alone far from her family. Both set out to find Rahul’s brother, who is said to have gone mad and who lives in the forest and sleeps in thee trees. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs

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7Aug11

Vimukthi Jayasundara ensaia escolas conhecidas: O naturalismo abstrato de Apichatpong Weerasethakul, o hiper-realismo de Jia Zhang-Ke... Tudo em busca de uma identidade visual, mas consegue apenas niilismo narrativo. Uma pretensão, cujo resultado é grosseiro, negligente, ausente de qualquer significado ou sentido.

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Cannes Questionnaires #4: Vimukthi Jayasundara

By Ryland Walker Knight on July 3, 2011

We talked to the energetic and charming Sri Lankan auteur at Cannes about his life and his new movie.

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Cannes 2011. Snapshots: Vimukthi Jayasundara's "Chatrak"

By Marie-Pierre Duhamel on May 19, 2011

After his brilliant Between Two Worlds (2009), Sri Lankan artist Jayasundara goes to Cannes with a Bengali film, featuring Bengali stars Paoli

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Cannes 2011: First Image And Details For Vimukthi Jayasundara's CHATRAK

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
There’s something happening in India, a new wave of independent film – or possibly an old one that the rest of the world is just noticing now – making waves around the world. Q’s Gandu played to great
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