June 8, 2009
not to take anything away from it but i liked the first part better. definitely being drawn into the life of this family
Ajay Mitra, Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee
Benares, India 1920. A Bengali priest, Harihar, his wife, Sarbajaya and their restless ten-year-old son Apu, live in the holy city. When Harihar dies, Sarbajaya becomes a cook in order to support hers...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 28, 2003
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April 14, 2009Much more technically accomplished than Pather Panchali. The scenes at the city were worthy of Antonioni. I love those subtle moments where the characters are still haunted by the events in Pather Panchali. The script has a bad habit of killing off main characters especially f...( read more)
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April 22, 2009The second chapter in the Apu trilogy is the most unconventional and arguably the most complex. The boy reaches adolescence and the questions truly begin. Traditionally second chapters don't offer many answers and this film is no exception. It's all about the journey. It may be m...( read more)
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February 24, 2009This is sort of a "slice-of-life" film about a Bengali Brahmin family. The formerly well-to-do family has been displaced from their ancestral home due to the ne'er do well father's naievete. The oldest girl, Durga, is sensitive to the injustice of her family's plight, and steal...( read more)
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May 16, 2008This film differs from the first of the trilogy mainly with it being more mise-en-scene tuned, where dialogue plays a small role and the shots do much more whereas in the first one, where there is an even bigger cast, the movie works more by being a documentary style on a family,...( read more)
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January 19, 2008Probably the weakest of the trilogy, but a weak classic is still a classic. Ray's storytelling style seems to reflect Apu as he grows up. In "Pather Panchali", the narrative was very slice-of-life, moving at its own pace, much like Apu as a child. In "World of Apu", the plot w...( read more)
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July 15, 2006The second installment of my second most favorite trilogy. First favorite? Indiana Jones.
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March 21, 2001
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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