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Abstract/Sommario: UFDKLMA: En 1992, alors que l’indépendance de la Namibie déclenche un afflux d’aides internationales sans précédent en faveur des Ju’hoansi, un peuple autochtone vivant dans le désert du Kalahari, ceux-ci se plaignent que les organismes de développement ne soutiennent plus l’agriculture.
LM: Dans la province du Shanxi (sud-ouest de Pékin), des paysans travaillent, au péril de leur vie, dans des mines de charbon pour compléter les maigres revenus que leur rapporte la terre.
SAUJDURCDC ...; [Leggi tutto...] UFDKLMA: En 1992, alors que l’indépendance de la Namibie déclenche un afflux d’aides internationales sans précédent en faveur des Ju’hoansi, un peuple autochtone vivant dans le désert du Kalahari, ceux-ci se plaignent que les organismes de développement ne soutiennent plus l’agriculture.
LM: Dans la province du Shanxi (sud-ouest de Pékin), des paysans travaillent, au péril de leur vie, dans des mines de charbon pour compléter les maigres revenus que leur rapporte la terre.
SAUJDURCDC: Une journée avec les membres d’un restaurant ashram (communautaire) de Calcutta.

Abstract/Sommario: The film tells the story of a lonely housewife, known as Charu (Madhabi Mukherjee), who lives a wealthy, secluded and idle life in 1870's Calcutta. Her husband, Bhupati (Sailen Mukherjee), runs a newspaper, The Sentinel, and spends a lot more time at work than with his wife. However, he notices that Charu is lonely, and asks his cousin, Amal (Soumitra Chatterjee), to keep her company. Amal is a writer and is asked to help Charu with her own writing.

Abstract/Sommario: Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, The Cloud-Capped Star tells the story of a family who have been uprooted by the Partition of India and come to depend on their eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta (Supriya Choudhury). She watches helplessly as her own hopes and desires are pushed aside time and again by those of her siblings and parents, until all her chances for happiness evaporate, leaving her crushed and ailing. Experimenting with off-balance composi ...; [Leggi tutto...] Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, The Cloud-Capped Star tells the story of a family who have been uprooted by the Partition of India and come to depend on their eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta (Supriya Choudhury). She watches helplessly as her own hopes and desires are pushed aside time and again by those of her siblings and parents, until all her chances for happiness evaporate, leaving her crushed and ailing. Experimenting with off-balance compositions, discontinuous editing, and a densely layered soundtrack, Ghatak devised an intellectually ambitious and emotionally devastating new shape for the melodrama, lamenting the tragedies of Indian history and the inequities of traditional gender roles while blazing a formal trail for the generations of Indian filmmakers who have followed him.