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Sadhaka

5May12

"... with every person you meet who was important to you, you either die a little bit or are born."

David Grillo

11Jan12

Truly wonderful. The moments in this film are so rich and naive to anything jaded that it takes me back to a felling of childhood.

Aaron Garrett

9Dec11

Awful voice over, uneven acting, but a truly great film due to all the rest.

I wasn't much impressed while watching this but I think it's growing on me. I feel like an idiot for not seeing the "beautiful colors" Scorcese talks about - it all looked really bland to me. Am I an idiot?

Salaway Gennaro

3Feb12

Did you see it on film? He has a print of it.

eric

13Jun11

The River is a remarkable film about of a family's collective coming-of-age story and a Janusian nostalgic look at the twilight end of an era. Beautifully shot near the Bengal River, the happiest days always seem to be filtered with copper sunlight in the afternoon as work recedes for play. Fraternal bonds and young love shared, this ensemble portrait also wonderfully captures a glimpse at India's faded past.

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Lee Bullitt

29Apr11

Full Review Here - http://liveforfilm.tumblr.com/post/303511133/the-river-1951

Sour Patch Kid

14Mar11

A Powell-Pressburger film as done by Renoir. I put this on whenever I just want to sit back for an hour and forty minutes and simply marvel.

kelvanE

23Jan11

Fantastic picture.

Steve

11Jan11

Some interesting moments make it worth checking out but overall quite a boring film

lasenora

28Sep10

Love!

Dalia

25Sep10

amazeballs

C-Mac

10Aug10

A lot like Wes Anderson - and I really think that comment would hold true prior to the Darjeeling Limited.

Zachary George Najarian-Najafi

4Aug10

Renoir's The River moves along with the ebb and flow of the Ganges River featured so prominently in the film. The story itself is actually somewhat mundane and the dialogue ranges from the poetic to the stilted, and the acting isn't great, but Renoir's images elevate this film to an almost transcendental level. It certaintley affected me more than The Rules of the Game, but not as much as Grand Illusion.

Hideous Bitch Princess

30Apr10

Favorite Renoir.

InsertOzuReferencehere

27Apr10

my favourite Renoir film, dispite it being one of his most different!

Andre

9Mar10

What a beautiful movie. The humanity and life that runs through that family reminds me a lot of "How green was my valley". I see both as the best possible expression of the roman-fleuve style in cinema.

Chuchaqui

12Feb10

Astonishing picture, great characters and visually beautiful. Love the image of life floating on like a river. Some scenes are beautiful, others nearly heart-breaking. Great experience and a perfect start for the Berlinale.

Jeff Hoch

26Jun09

This movie effected me tremendously. You can just feel Jean Renoir's respect and admiration for the Indian culture radiating off of this film. It almost moved me to tears at points.

Joriah Goad

15Jun09

I was actually let down when I realized this film was in English, something with such a gorgeous location and magical technicolor can often be tainted by the delivery of English dialouge. It was acted in the tradition of a Vincente Minnelli musical. I've been meaning to get around to seeing this for over 8 years and now that I've seen it, I miss how important it felt having not seen it.

Richard David Pitre

10Jan09

Every description you can think of to describe your idea of a river that flows in India could be attributed to this movie.