A Passage to India Reviews

(BluR) Lean is irresistible. The plot is as fine as locations, photography and Maurice jarre music. Davis is impeccable, as Bannerjee is not. Fox never fails. The secuence with the monkeys is an excellent anticipation of the false sexual assault....

Since it was David Lean's last directing effort, I was really eager to check it out. Well, even though it was pretty good, I can't say it reached the level of other Lean's masterpieces such as 'Lawrence of Arabia' and, to be honest, I was rather surprised that Roger Ebert loved it so much. I suspect that Ebert eventually loved this movie more than I did mostly because he had read the classic novel written by E.M. Forster. Obviously, I didn't read the book and, quite often, I was quite struggling to understand what this movie was getting at and the whole thing felt rather messy and confusing to me. I mean, was there actually a main character? There was more or less a plot but it was still rather murky to me. It doesn't mean that I didn't like this movie though. Indeed, Judy Davis, who apparently didn't get along at all with David Lean, was really good and it gave a good idea on why the English and the Indian didn't manage to get along during the time that India was still a colony and why it didn't work. It displayed also that India, which I have never visited, seems to be a country which is equally fascinating but also so disturbing for us coming from the West. Anyway, to conclude, even though I don't think it is really a masterpiece, it was still an interesting watch and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in David Lean's work.