Adrienne Corri, Arthur Shields, Esmond Knight
Three teenage girls are living in Bengali (India) near a big river: Harriet is the oldest child of a big family of English settlers. Valerie is the unique daughter of an American industrialist. Melani...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 1, 2005
Stats: 99 reviews
Martin Scorcese considers this and Michael Powell's Red Shoes to be the most beautifully photographed Technicolor films in history.
It's hard to disagree.
The craft and photography in this film belongs on the list with The Searchers, Il Conformista, and In the Mood for Love a...( read more)
Jean Renoir is one of my favorite filmmakers, I especially love the films The Rules of the Game and Grand Illusion, both excellent looks class and war respectively. This film was made a good ten years after both and was his first color film. The film is in English (though it wa...( read more)
This was not the man vs. nature struggle I was rather expecting from the title, in fact this was directed by Jean Renoir and is a coming-of-age tale centered around an English family living in India. Watching the growing pains of privileged teenage sisters who are not particular...( read more)
The shots of the family sleeping in the afternoon are my favorite part. And the Indian boy crying at the funeral.
My favorite movie set in India. Siddhartha, eat your heart out. Your move, Bollywood!
A fascinating film, that talks about life going on, even after death, it continues, it just goes, it never cares for the past, just like the river, as it glides along, a tragic story that follows a theme of continuation throughout its entirety.
Visually astonishing with a magical, passionate and elegant story. The children's POV lends the film an almost fairy-tale quality. A one-of-a-kind cinematic experience.
I really like this movie. Even though it is about colonialism in India, it is superb. It specifically focuses on 3 girls, both white and Indian. It is almost hard to describe why it is so good, you would have to and should see it yourself.
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