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100Sheer delight. An ensemble comedy-drama that recalls Robert Altman's best work.
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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.
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91The 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.
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90Has 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.
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90They bring their characters to good, slightly surprising, quite satisfying places. And leave us beaming happily.
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90Nair's movie, far from being paste, is a string of small, exquisite gems.
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90Nair 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.
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Exploding on the screen in a riot of movement, music and color.
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88One of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature.
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88Delighted me like few films I've seen recently. It's a sexy, sweet, sumptuously entertaining movie about the huge and wildly eventful wedding reception.
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88Some of the movie's best scenes -- knockouts, in fact -- involve musical interludes.
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88The film's bountiful warmth and gusto do their work. By the end, we feel part of the family, too.
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80Nair, who, in this film as in so many others, aims for the beating heart of the predictable movie moment.
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80Aims for pure joy and achieves it.
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80A sight worth seeing.
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80Nair’s stereotype-shattering movie -- like the polymorphous culture it illuminates -- borrows from Bollywood, Hollywood and cinema verite, and comes up with something exuberantly its own.
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80When the groom's enormous procession fights its way through the hard rain and muck to the bejeweled bride, Nair's chaos downright sparkles.
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80Pulsates with music, dance, color and laughter, but also glows with quiet moments of drama.
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A late radical shift in tone, from jittery exuberance to ruinous alienation, strikes an impressive contemporary note amid all the obeisance to custom.
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75Fans of Robert Altman's hit "Gosford Park" will find similar pleasures here: colorful characters, multiple story lines, and clever blends of comedy and drama.
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75Ebullient, joyous film.
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75With 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.
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75A feast for the eyes and ears as its story is a banquet for the heart.
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75An infectious celebration of life and love.
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75It'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.
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75The beauty, vibrancy and complexity of Indian culture is on addictive display in Monsoon Wedding. If only there were more to the film.
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75In 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.
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70Punjabi weddings are notorious for their lavishness, and Nair's intoxicating soap opera revels in the sights and sounds of this clamorous family ritual.
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70Strongly infused with an unmistakably exotic Bollywood flair.
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70Monsoon 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.
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70Eminently disposable, but that's its charm. It stays with you just long enough to make you smile.
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70Splashy, noisy and downright fun.
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60The 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.
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58Gives just enough to forgive any of its initial flaws and eventually grows on you.
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50A 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]
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40An 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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AbyB.2Very predictable story line. Movie is too slow , no clear cuts... Random takes.
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JaspreetS.10One of the most enjoyable movies to come out of india lately. Love that Mir. Dubey.
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TimothyD.10