Rotten
The period reconstructions are impressive but the script and direction are a little pedestrian.
Wally Hammond, Time Out
Overview
Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, traumatized by the events that separated her from her family.
Director and cast
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38%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Partition doesn't add many new ideas to the mix, but the deep colors and complex textures supplied by Indian-born cinematographer-turned-director Vic Sarin seem to embody the intensity of his boyhood memories.
David Chute, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
Where the film stumbles is the script, overcrowded with bits of business and scenes that lean heavily on the symbolic.
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail
Rotten
[Director] Sarin was aiming for an epic and arrived at episodic. That might have been okay if the episodes weren't so partitioned from each other, the flashbacks failing to illuminate the present action.
Susan Walker, Toronto Star
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