The Home and the World (Ghare-Baire) (1984)

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7.5	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Satyajit Ray

Starring

Soumitra Chatterjee
Sandip Mukherjee

Victor Banerjee
Nikhilesh Choudhury

Jennifer Kendal
Miss Gilby

Written by

Satyajit Ray
screenplay

Rabindranath Tagore
novel

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3 years ago at Apr 4 2:01

fernando

(Mu) Too long dialogues, but it adds to a good end. The women reclusion is a state of mind, not just genre and politics, as the 'swadeshi' or nationalist cliam to forbid foreign products is too. There's tension and grey zones in the photography; but takes time too cathc interest. Its the time of the century, long before independence and long after british heritage...

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Description: When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battl ... (more)

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“(Mu) Too long dialogues, but it adds to a good end. The women reclusion is a state of mind, not just genre and politics, as the 'swadeshi' or nationalist cliam to forbid foreign products is too. There's tension and grey zones in the photography; but takes time too cathc interest. Its the time of the century, long before independence and long after british heritage...” read more

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"22.12. Satyajit Rayn elokuvassa liberaali älykkö huomaa, että hänen on vaikea pitää homma kasassa, kun ulkomaisia vaikutteita pois ajavan ryhmittymän johtohahmo on paljon karismaattisempi keulakuva aatemaailmalleen. The Home and the World on hyvä kuvaus siitä, miten aatteet etenevät helposti henkilö edellä, koska silloin ihmiset kokevat samaistumista, saavat ohjeita ilman ajattelun tarvetta ja voivat kuvitella, että vahvalla johtajalla on homma edes jollain tavalla hallussa. "