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The Cloud Capped Star on DVD (1960)
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A key figure in the Parallel Cinema movement, director Ritwik Ghatak combines social realism with stylised expressionism in this audacious melodrama, which also manages to evoke Bengali myth and the “selfless sister” pictures of the great Japanese director, Kenji Mizoguchi. Sacrificing her health and happiness to fulfil the ambitions of her siblings, Supriya Choudhury gives a performance of affecting determination and dignity. But while this first part of Ghatak's Calcutta trilogy was acclaimed for its political conviction and cinematic invention, the concluding instalments, E Flat (1961) and The Golden Thread (1962), caused such a furore that he was unable to work for a decade.
A powerful and enraged account of suffering and waste, of exile and disappointment. Members ReviewsReviews Voted Most Helpful |
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