Fresh
Less about finger-pointing than a plea for India to confront its past.
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
Amu
When the past lives in the present...
2005 · 1h 42m · Not Rated
Drama, History
Directed by
Shonali Bose
Overview
Amu is the story of Kaju, a twenty-one-year-old Indian American woman who returns to India to visit her family and discover the place where she was born. The film takes a dark turn as Kaju stumbles against secrets and lies from her past. A horrifying genocide that took place twenty years ago turns out to hold the key to her mysterious origins.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Shot with remarkable confidence and an understated eloquence.
John Anderson, Newsday
Fresh
An admirable labor of love that stumbles dramatically but gets along on its sincere good intentions.
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
The flashback sequences are vibrant and intense, and the film's long closing shot is so dense with feeling for a nation and its people that Bose deserves to be noted as a filmmaker to watch.
Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly
Fresh
[Amu] is clearly a labor of love for the activist filmmaker, as she breaks all the traditional inhibitions of Bollywood to remind the world of -- and, for most of us, reveal for the first time -- one of the most shameful episodes in Indian history.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
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