Fresh
Quite possibly the best picture of the year thus far, with no fewer than three of the most luminous female performances I have ever seen onscreen.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Overview
The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two of her compatriots.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Mehta prevailed, and this scandalous, beautiful and very moving tale of repression, hope and a tragedy is her triumph, and Hindu India's shame.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
Unfolds with the clean, simple lines of a fairy tale, and if the characters initially seem to be too black-or-white to be believable, the moral complexity of the story reveals itself in a gradual, subtle manner.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Fresh
Ebbs and flows with devastating truths and profound insights into the hypocrisy of extremism in any religion.
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fresh
Mehta's film is courageous and reticent, a shout masquerading as a whisper.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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