A Passage to India (1984)
Country: GB
Technical: col 163m
Director: David Lean
Cast: Judy Davis, Alec Guinness, Peggy Ashcroft, Victor Banerjee, James Fox, Nigel Havers
Synopsis:
A young bride-to-be journeys out to India to join her fiancé and strikes up friendships with her future mother-in-law, a British doctor frowned-upon by the expat community, and his Indian colleague, the last of which proves disastrous.
Review:
Partly about the clash of cultures in occupied India, but more profoundly, and here Lean applies a different emphasis to the book, a hymn to our insignificance in the world. It presents, with dazzling technical assurance, the way India brings on an awareness of this in the sensitive souls lucky enough to notice, and the alternately uplifting and awe-inspiring effect this awareness has.
Country: GB
Technical: col 163m
Director: David Lean
Cast: Judy Davis, Alec Guinness, Peggy Ashcroft, Victor Banerjee, James Fox, Nigel Havers
Synopsis:
A young bride-to-be journeys out to India to join her fiancé and strikes up friendships with her future mother-in-law, a British doctor frowned-upon by the expat community, and his Indian colleague, the last of which proves disastrous.
Review:
Partly about the clash of cultures in occupied India, but more profoundly, and here Lean applies a different emphasis to the book, a hymn to our insignificance in the world. It presents, with dazzling technical assurance, the way India brings on an awareness of this in the sensitive souls lucky enough to notice, and the alternately uplifting and awe-inspiring effect this awareness has.
Country: GB
Technical: col 163m
Director: David Lean
Cast: Judy Davis, Alec Guinness, Peggy Ashcroft, Victor Banerjee, James Fox, Nigel Havers
Synopsis:
A young bride-to-be journeys out to India to join her fiancé and strikes up friendships with her future mother-in-law, a British doctor frowned-upon by the expat community, and his Indian colleague, the last of which proves disastrous.
Review:
Partly about the clash of cultures in occupied India, but more profoundly, and here Lean applies a different emphasis to the book, a hymn to our insignificance in the world. It presents, with dazzling technical assurance, the way India brings on an awareness of this in the sensitive souls lucky enough to notice, and the alternately uplifting and awe-inspiring effect this awareness has.