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9.2 User Score:

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Based on 15 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Deepa Mehta
Bapsi Sidhwa (autobiography Cracking India)

Directed by: Deepa Mehta

Release Date:
Theatrical: September 10, 1999

Running Time: 104 minutes, Color

Origin: Canada / India

Summary

RATING: Not rated

Starring Nandita Das, Kitu Gidwani, Asmir Kahn, and Rahul Khanna

A group of diverse Indian friends and two men after one woman is torn apart by the 1947 partitioning of India. The woman in question (Das) is a nanny who is, with her eight-year-old charge (Sethna), insulated by her Parsi family's wealth and neutrality from the violence erupting around her.

What The Critics Said

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91

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Even blood, spilled so freely, has a distinctive intensity of red in this beautiful and harrowing film.

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90

LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

Both visually and emotionally, a panoramic picture; Mehta wields a master's hand as she weaves together vistas of urban and pastoral India with thoughts on the nature of man as it keeps cycling out in the specifics of history.

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88

Chicago Tribune

An extraordinary movie on many levels.

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88

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

A remarkable accomplishment. It takes one of the century's vast tragedies...and makes it heart-rendingly real and intimate.

80

Film.com Gemma Files

Mehta's latest release, combines a similarly intoxicating visual immediacy and delight with a sobering outsider's long view.

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80

The New York Times Stephen Holden

A powerful and disturbing reminder of how a civilization can suddenly crack under certain pressures.

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75

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

It's a passionate, beautifully mounted film -- but the agenda she sets for herself is too large and the conflicts she portrays too complicated to be illustrated in a single drama.

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75

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Told as a melodrama and romance, not docudrama, and that makes it all the more effective.

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75

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Hurls its Holocaust at us in a series of justifiably horrific images.

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70

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

Telling things through the eyes of a spoiled, precocious, troublemaking 8-year-old narrator is both an overdone device and not a particularly engaging one.

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70

Film.com John Hartl

Gorgeous and troubling.

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60

TV Guide Ken Fox

Sumptuous historical melodrama.

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58

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

A draggy affair livened occasionally by bursts of color or raw emotion, but just as often convoluted and hackneyed. It's a case of a film taking on, admirably, more than it can chew.

50

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Unfortunately the allegory tends to overpower the characterizations even as it deepens them.

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40

Village Voice Jessica Winter

Mehta feels compelled to twist the screw, shamelessly plying her audience with mawkish tropes wearing the garb of "innocence."

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.2 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Ariel S. gave it a10:
Fire, brimestone, and terror reign in this movie.

Keith K. gave it a7:
An excellent movie about the break-up of India in 1947. Musical sound track haunting.

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