Beyond The Clouds Zee Studios International Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Majid Majidi Screenwriter: Majid Mafiji, Mehran Kashani Cast: Ishaan Khatter, Malavika Monanan, Gautam Ghose, Gv Sharada, Dhwani Rajesh, Amruta Santosh Thakur, Shivan Puj Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/8/18 Opens: April 20, 2018 Celebrated Iranian director Majid Majidi invites us to a tale that […]
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- 4/19/2018
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Beyond The Clouds
Introducing Ishaan Khatter, Malavika Mohanan
Directed by Majidi Majidi
There came a time in this cyclonic tale of squalor, despair and redemption where I thought I’d simply be blown away by the shrillness of the drama. Majid Majidi pulls out all stops to show us the underbelly of Mumbai, warts, moles and all.
The camera pans the suffocating crowds with easy grace, embracing the bizarre bazaar of racketeering and low-living with a kind of sighing interjection that is the opposite of hopelessness. Admittedly cinematographer Anil Mehta does for Majid Majidi’s Mumbai what Subrata Mitra did to Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali.
Without romanticizing the despair he shoots the frames with a beam of optimism.
And Dhobi Ghat never looked more intriguing. There is a key scene of sexual violence silhouetted against the flapping white bed sheets spread out for drying. This would have looked laughably...
Introducing Ishaan Khatter, Malavika Mohanan
Directed by Majidi Majidi
There came a time in this cyclonic tale of squalor, despair and redemption where I thought I’d simply be blown away by the shrillness of the drama. Majid Majidi pulls out all stops to show us the underbelly of Mumbai, warts, moles and all.
The camera pans the suffocating crowds with easy grace, embracing the bizarre bazaar of racketeering and low-living with a kind of sighing interjection that is the opposite of hopelessness. Admittedly cinematographer Anil Mehta does for Majid Majidi’s Mumbai what Subrata Mitra did to Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali.
Without romanticizing the despair he shoots the frames with a beam of optimism.
And Dhobi Ghat never looked more intriguing. There is a key scene of sexual violence silhouetted against the flapping white bed sheets spread out for drying. This would have looked laughably...
- 4/18/2018
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
We’re so used, in the U.S., to seeing films set in glamorous places about rich and beautiful people -- even independent American films often feel like they’re occurring in fantasylands of abundance and comfort even when they purport to show more mundane reality -- that there’s something extra startling and extra wonderful about a movie concerned with the most ordinary of folk. Iranian director Majid Majidi -- who also wrote this exquisite film with Mehran Kashani -- is a master of the mundane, of transforming it into something luminous and lovely. The memory of how profoundly his 1999 film The Color of Paradise made me feel like I’d never seen a movie before still haunts me; now, The Song of Sparrows astonishes with me its simplicity, its uncomplicated wisdom, its visual salience. The ironic thing about the film -- which was Iran’s entry for last...
- 9/1/2009
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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