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| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: February 1, 1985 |
Starring:
Alec Guinness, Antonia Pemberton, Art Malik, James Fox, Judy Davis, Michael Culver, Nigel Havers, Peggy Ashcroft, Richard Wilson, Victor Banerjee
Summary:
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
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While it isn't as brilliant as his The Bridge On The River Kwai or Lawrence Of Arabia, Lean's final film is just as meticulously designed, because more than any other filmmaker of his era, he understood how the right hat could say as much about a character —and a society—as any line of dialogue.
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Old-fashioned isn't necessarily bad. In Lean's case it can be immensely entertaining, because he knows how to build a story. At 76, he is still quite vital a force behind the camera, and he makes A Passage to India, born a comedy of manners, into high melodrama. [11 Jan 1985, p.D1]
A lavishly produced and often involving drama that never reaches its full potential. [09 Jan 1985, p.25]
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