Kanchenjunga (1962)
Country: IND
Technical: col 102m
Director: Satyajit Ray
Cast: Chhabi Biswas, Anil Chatterjee
Synopsis:
In the eponymous hills, something about the air and the light makes ordinary cares and worries seem out of proportion to those experiencing them.
Review:
Ambitious, but not wholly successful, interweaving of characters in a (supposedly deterministic) natural landscape. The endless meetings and conversations along the footpaths of Darjeeling are too predictable and muted in their emotional effect, even if the final glimpse of the hitherto veiled mountain ridge is nicely understated, consisting merely of a rack-focus transition. (Possibly owing to a bad print, the effect was rather ruined when I caught it on French television, though.)
Country: IND
Technical: col 102m
Director: Satyajit Ray
Cast: Chhabi Biswas, Anil Chatterjee
Synopsis:
In the eponymous hills, something about the air and the light makes ordinary cares and worries seem out of proportion to those experiencing them.
Review:
Ambitious, but not wholly successful, interweaving of characters in a (supposedly deterministic) natural landscape. The endless meetings and conversations along the footpaths of Darjeeling are too predictable and muted in their emotional effect, even if the final glimpse of the hitherto veiled mountain ridge is nicely understated, consisting merely of a rack-focus transition. (Possibly owing to a bad print, the effect was rather ruined when I caught it on French television, though.)
Country: IND
Technical: col 102m
Director: Satyajit Ray
Cast: Chhabi Biswas, Anil Chatterjee
Synopsis:
In the eponymous hills, something about the air and the light makes ordinary cares and worries seem out of proportion to those experiencing them.
Review:
Ambitious, but not wholly successful, interweaving of characters in a (supposedly deterministic) natural landscape. The endless meetings and conversations along the footpaths of Darjeeling are too predictable and muted in their emotional effect, even if the final glimpse of the hitherto veiled mountain ridge is nicely understated, consisting merely of a rack-focus transition. (Possibly owing to a bad print, the effect was rather ruined when I caught it on French television, though.)