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82
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81
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42
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28
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22
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Monsoon Wedding
USA Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language, including some sex related dialogue
Starring
Naseeruddin Shah,
Lillete Dubey,
Shefali Shetty,
Vijay Raaz,
Tilotama Shome,
Vasundhara Das,
Parvin Dabas,
and
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
This exuberant ensemble comedy links the stories of far-flung family members, their servants and secret lovers as a Punjabi family in Delhi reunites for their daughter's wedding. (USA Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Sabrina Dhawan
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Mira Nair
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 24, 2002
Video: September 24, 2002
Theatrical: February 22, 2002
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| RUNNING TIME: |
114 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
India / USA / France / Italy |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
English, Punjabi and Hindi (with English subtitles) |
Golden Lion (Best Film), 2001 Venice International Film Festival

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Sheer delight. An ensemble comedy-drama that recalls Robert Altman's best work.

100
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Contains an incest story line that's disturbing but shouldn't scare people away. Nair handles the subject with such grace and sensitivity that it becomes just another element in this complex celebration of family.

91
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The old-world-meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack, a joyful effusion of disco Bollywood that, by the end of Monsoon Wedding, sent my spirit soaring out of the theater.

90
Time
Richard Schickel
They bring their characters to good, slightly surprising, quite satisfying places. And leave us beaming happily.
90
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Nair is not making a caricature out of Lalit or anyone else. She's inviting us into the inner recesses of her culture. And it's both pleasure and privilege to be one of her guests.

90
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Exploding on the screen in a riot of movement, music and color.

90
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Has an engaging warmth and an effortless sense of life. It also has an instinct for the humanity and universality of situations that are comic, romantic and quite seriously dramatic by turns.

90
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Nair's movie, far from being paste, is a string of small, exquisite gems.
88
USA Today
Mike Clark
Some of the movie's best scenes -- knockouts, in fact -- involve musical interludes.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Delighted me like few films I've seen recently. It's a sexy, sweet, sumptuously entertaining movie about the huge and wildly eventful wedding reception.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
One of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature.

88
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
The film's bountiful warmth and gusto do their work. By the end, we feel part of the family, too.

80
New Times (L.A.)
Jean Oppenheimer
Pulsates with music, dance, color and laughter, but also glows with quiet moments of drama.

80
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
Nair, who, in this film as in so many others, aims for the beating heart of the predictable movie moment.

80
Chicago Reader
Joshua Rothkopf
A late radical shift in tone, from jittery exuberance to ruinous alienation, strikes an impressive contemporary note amid all the obeisance to custom.

80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
A sight worth seeing.

80
Slate
David Edelstein
When the groom's enormous procession fights its way through the hard rain and muck to the bejeweled bride, Nair's chaos downright sparkles.

80
Newsweek
David Ansen
Nairs stereotype-shattering movie -- like the polymorphous culture it illuminates -- borrows from Bollywood, Hollywood and cinema verite, and comes up with something exuberantly its own.
80
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Aims for pure joy and achieves it.

75
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
The beauty, vibrancy and complexity of Indian culture is on addictive display in Monsoon Wedding. If only there were more to the film.
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
It's a fascinating babel, and Nair, using the unfolding ritual of the wedding as a centre point, captures the competing sights and sounds with her own unique mix of cinematic borrowings -- think Robert Altman meets Bollywood.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Ebullient, joyous film.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
With its colorful embroidery, Monsoon Wedding feels pleasurably grounded in a reality about which most Westerners haven't a clue. This may be their only engraved invitation.
75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
An infectious celebration of life and love.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
In the film's stronger moments, the artist in her definitely seems to be saying that the impulse to retreat into cultural fundamentalism carries dire risks, that much of what is old and traditional needs changing and there are some things about the detested process of globalization that are wonderfully liberating.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
A feast for the eyes and ears as its story is a banquet for the heart.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Fans of Robert Altman's hit "Gosford Park" will find similar pleasures here: colorful characters, multiple story lines, and clever blends of comedy and drama.

70
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
Eminently disposable, but that's its charm. It stays with you just long enough to make you smile.

70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Punjabi weddings are notorious for their lavishness, and Nair's intoxicating soap opera revels in the sights and sounds of this clamorous family ritual.

70
Variety
Deborah Young
Splashy, noisy and downright fun.

70
Film Threat
Michael Dequina
Strongly infused with an unmistakably exotic Bollywood flair.

70
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Monsoon Wedding is going to be a big art-house hit because it's one of those movies that reassures audiences that people in other countries are just like us.

60
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
The agile handling of the soap-opera elements -- conventional plotting at best -- finally makes "Wedding" a pop, facile take on Capulet versus Montague stuff, likable but square.

58
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Gives just enough to forgive any of its initial flaws and eventually grows on you.

50
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
A scruffy, thick-grained piece of work, shot in thirty days and scrawled not with luscious coloring but with the tense and inky markings of a society that is fighting to keep its reputation for togetherness, and wondering what that reputation is still worth. [18 & 25 Feb 2002. p. 199]
40
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
An air-conditioned bus tour of Punjabi ritual. Nair stuffs the film with dancing, henna, ornamentation, and group song, but her narrative clichés and telegraphed episodes smell of old soap opera.


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