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• katie - Oct 18 2006 | movie, movies, Deepa Mehta, Indian Cinema

  This most recent DVD that I received seemed all right until I was about 15 minutes into it and realized that the subtitles didn't always pop up when the characters were speaking... Nevertheless the director did a great job capturing the story visually, so there were only a few moments when it became frustrating for me.

  This film is set in 1947 India and takes a snippet out of the lives of a community of friends amidst the partition of India. It started out beautifully. (A little girl slams a plate to the ground ultimately setting up the theme of the entire movie-division of a whole)... but I thought it ended a little abruptly (I wanted to know what ultimately happened to the characters.)

  The overall quality of the film seemed low budget, which I wasn’t expecting, but I think it was done well despite this. I may have given this 5 stars if I caught all the dialogue… I’ll have to try and get my hands on a better copy.

  Note:
  The director is a woman!
  It’s the second film in a trilogy. Fire, Earth, Water.
  It was (is still?) banned in India and Pakistan.

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  • TsaoTsao - Oct 19 2006
    

    It can't be a good movie then, directed by a woman! j/k