The River details
| Format: | U DVD |
|---|---|
| Starring: | Suprova Mukerjee, Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields |
| Director: | Jean Renoir |
| Genre: | Drama - Musical |
| Studio: | BFI VIDEO |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
The River - Disc 1 |
U Disc 1 | |
The River - Disc 2 |
U Disc 2 |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 39 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 31 Jul 2006 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English |
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Nice footage of the era, poor storyline
By A room with a review from London , 12 Mar 2008[Highly rated reviewer]
The River is essentially a coming of age drama based around three young girls growing up in British colonial India/South Asia. Some of the footage shot at the time is almost documentary style, and this is the most interesting aspect of the film. Some scenes of the workers creating rope are an interesting snapshot of the times.
The storyline however did not keep me captivated. It centres around three young girls and their emphatuation with a former soldier who visits.
This is a weak coming of age drama. Furthermore, the acting is hard to bare. Very prim and proper English acting. Very boring and false if you ask me.
You do not need the second disc, it is just minimal bonus material.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(8)Nice footage of the era, poor storyline
By A room with a review from London , 12 Mar 2008The River is essentially a coming of age drama based around three young girls growing up in British colonial India/South Asia. Some of the footage shot at the time is almost documentary style, and this is the most interesting aspect of the film. Some scenes of the workers creating rope are an interesting snapshot of the times.
The storyline however did not keep me captivated. It centres around three young girls and their emphatuation with a former soldier who visits.
This is a weak coming of age drama. Furthermore, the acting is hard to bare. Very prim and proper English acting. Very boring and false if you ask me.
You do not need the second disc, it is just minimal bonus material.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Exquisite
By captainsensible (12 reviews) from Llanidloes , 05 Oct 2007Jean Renoir directed and Claude Renoir photographed some of the most beautiful movies ever made. This is one of them.- Was this review helpful to you?
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A gentle flow
By RJNeb2 (934 reviews) from London , 27 Aug 2007Renoir takes his painterly eye to Bengal and into the home of an English family living on the banks of the Ganges. A slow, meandering tale of teenage girls falling for a troubled American ex-soldier staying next door unfolds but frankly that's not the attraction here. (Indeed the stiffness of most of the performances really gets in the way.) Instead it's Renoir's documentary approach to real Indian life that is the real fascination, sumptuously shot in ravishing colour.- Was this review helpful to you?
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A RARE BEAUTY
By a customer from birmingham, england , 23 Aug 2007...and mysterious film, about an English Family, though the acting is wooden, and one does not really believe this Family; one has to trust the master, as the main context of the film is adolescence, which is a favourite film topic for the French.
Shooting in India gives the film a magical quality.- Was this review helpful to you?
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A 'classic'film?-massively over-rated
By a customer from Manchester,England , 01 Sep 2006I'd read reviews of this film citing it as a 'classic',including the above review from a Screen Select member,one of the first colour films etc.etc.,so was really looking forward to it.
Alas.
For the first half,I was left wondering wether I'd been sent a different film of the same name!
I do admit to being somewhat of an inverted snob,but I found the setting of the film & all the characters in it,to be nauseatingly upper class & shallow.'Try growing up & discovering love for the first time in the real world'was never far from my lips!
I admit it was a lovely look at an India of the era,but woefully lacking in enough substance for it to be an enjoyable film.Tally Ho..- Was this review helpful to you?
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