Viceroy's House (2017)
Country: GB/IND/PAK/BAN/SV
Technical: col/2.35:1 106m
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, Om Puri, Michael Gambon
Synopsis:
The Mountbattens arrive in Delhi in 1947, to oversee the transition to independence and chair talks with the various religious and political leaders. They find an intractable situation made worse by mounting violence along sectarian divisions. But an undisclosed protocol predates their arrival, effectively making them political pawns themselves.
Review:
The official exchanges are illuminating enough, but the real interest in Chadha's lavish re-enactment comes with the effects of the uncertainty on the palace staff, all very much at fever pitch, and on the young lovers whose personal story acts as human counterpoint to the political one. Lady Mountbatten is also revealed to be uncommonly broadminded and sympathetic, though Anderson's performance cannot help reminding one of her Margaret Thatcher.
Country: GB/IND/PAK/BAN/SV
Technical: col/2.35:1 106m
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, Om Puri, Michael Gambon
Synopsis:
The Mountbattens arrive in Delhi in 1947, to oversee the transition to independence and chair talks with the various religious and political leaders. They find an intractable situation made worse by mounting violence along sectarian divisions. But an undisclosed protocol predates their arrival, effectively making them political pawns themselves.
Review:
The official exchanges are illuminating enough, but the real interest in Chadha's lavish re-enactment comes with the effects of the uncertainty on the palace staff, all very much at fever pitch, and on the young lovers whose personal story acts as human counterpoint to the political one. Lady Mountbatten is also revealed to be uncommonly broadminded and sympathetic, though Anderson's performance cannot help reminding one of her Margaret Thatcher.
Country: GB/IND/PAK/BAN/SV
Technical: col/2.35:1 106m
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, Om Puri, Michael Gambon
Synopsis:
The Mountbattens arrive in Delhi in 1947, to oversee the transition to independence and chair talks with the various religious and political leaders. They find an intractable situation made worse by mounting violence along sectarian divisions. But an undisclosed protocol predates their arrival, effectively making them political pawns themselves.
Review:
The official exchanges are illuminating enough, but the real interest in Chadha's lavish re-enactment comes with the effects of the uncertainty on the palace staff, all very much at fever pitch, and on the young lovers whose personal story acts as human counterpoint to the political one. Lady Mountbatten is also revealed to be uncommonly broadminded and sympathetic, though Anderson's performance cannot help reminding one of her Margaret Thatcher.