- Summary: 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.
- Director: Deepa Mehta
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance, War
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 15
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Mixed: 4 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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91Even blood, spilled so freely, has a distinctive intensity of red in this beautiful and harrowing film.
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90Both 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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60Sumptuous historical melodrama.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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ArielS.10Fire, brimestone, and terror reign in this movie.
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