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- 1997
- PG-13
- Juno Films
- 1 h 48 m
- 1997
- PG-13
- Juno Films
- 1 h 48 m
Summary Deepa Mehta's tender, passionate and controversial love story of two Indian women torn between their devotion to duty and their desire for love and companionship. (Zeitgeist Films)
Directed By: Deepa Mehta
Written By: Deepa Mehta
- 1997
- PG-13
- Juno Films
- 1 h 48 m
- 1997
- PG-13
- Juno Films
- 1 h 48 m
Fire
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7.6
Summary Deepa Mehta's tender, passionate and controversial love story of two Indian women torn between their devotion to duty and their desire for love and companionship. (Zeitgeist Films)
Directed By: Deepa Mehta
Written By: Deepa Mehta
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
64
64% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
36% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mehta has created a pair of memorable characters who are easy to empathize with, and who gratifyingly are never transformed from flesh-and-blood individuals into mere symbols.
Writer-director Deepa Mehta fuses the soap-opera elements of her plot -- which reveals one sexual secret after another of the variously betrayed, selfish, and self-actualizing members of the two couples' New Delhi household--into profound drama.
The richness of characters make this movie shine. It's just that, somehow, a certain sense of fire is missing.
As a director, Mehta would do well to stop smothering her empathy in glibness (she uses the family's ancient mute grandmother as a sitcom prank), but her empathy pokes through nonetheless.
Audacious, yet sensitive, Fire may shock traditionalists but is the sort of film that ought to win Indian cinema a whole new audience.
Fire is designed to provoke questions and spark debate. Mission accomplished, but, despite a heartfelt tone that pervades its every moment, it doesn't do much else.
The third feature from this Indian-born writer-director... is an underwhelming effort that adds little new to the debate over arranged marriages and fails to ignite much interest in the problems faced by two frustrated New Delhi wives.
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Awards
L.A. Outfest
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Schermi d’Amore - Verona Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
