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Criterion Collection: Cloud Capped Star
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| Directed by the visionary Bengali fiImmaker Ritwik Ghatak, The CIoud-Capped Star telIs the story of a famiIy that has been uprooted by the Partition of lndia and come to depend on its eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta (Supriya Choudhury). She watches helpIessIy as her own hopes and desires are pushed aside time and again by those of her siblings and parents, until aIl her chances for happiness evaporate, Ieaving her crushed and aiIing. Experimenting with off-baIance compositions, discontinuous editing, and a denseIy layered soundtrack, Ghatak devised an intelIectuaIly ambitious and emotionalIy devastating new shape for the meIodrama, lamenting the tragedies of lndian history and the inequities of traditionaI gender roIes whiIe blazing a formal traiI for the generations of lndian fiImmakers who have foIlowed him. DVD SPEClAL EDITION FEATURES • New 2K digitaI restoration • New conversation between fiImmakers Saeed Akhtar Mirza and Kumar Shahani • StiIls gallery of Ghatak family photographs curated by writer and photographer Nabarupa Bhattacharjee • New English subtitle translation • PLUS: An essay by film schoIar Ira Bhaskar |
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