Fresh
As with the works of any great director, The Home and the World defies easy categorization.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
The Home and the World
TRADITION VERSUS MODERNISM
1985 · 2h 20m · Not Rated
Drama
Directed by
Satyajit Ray
Overview
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 battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.
Director and cast
- Satyajit Ray Director
- Soumitra Chatterjee as Sandip Mukherjee
- Victor Banerjee as Nikhilesh Choudhury
- Swatilekha Sengupta as Bimala Choudhury
- Gopa Aich as The Sister-in-Law
- Jennifer Kendal as Miss Gilby
- Manoj Mitra as Headmaster
- Bimal Chatterjee as Kulada
- Indrapramit Roy as Amulya
- Sunil Sarkar Cast
- Tinu Ghosh Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It is a contemplative movie -- quiet, slow, a series of conversations punctuated by sudden bursts of activity.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Ray soft-pedals the ironies (the politician is, of course, a bounder), while bringing out the full emotional sweep of the young woman's awakening, suggesting that the violent demonstrations that rock the streets are the product of a similar repression.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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