Pather Panchali Comments

  • Flavio 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    One of Arp's trilogy: "Song of the Road". The realm that the image can reach is nothing more than seeing the shock of thunder in the calm. "There are good and bad days, it will always get...

  • Eduardo 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    9.5, a Rey-style melodrama that focuses on the neo-realism background of the bottom layer and the national poetry under Indian naturalism. Rey is worthy of being an assistant director for Renoir. Pond, lotus leaf, dragonfly, reed field, India The countryside is full of primitive earth and natural beauty under his lens, but behind the simple poetry is the closed, conservative, poor and hierarchical Indian countryside. Compared with the old tower, Ray's film may be more appropriately called a...

  • Jeffry 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    #SIFF2021# It was probably hard to imagine enjoying such an art film from India on the big screen. It turns out that Satyajit is indeed such a talented director. This debut feature has just the right story and plain and simple. The power of grief is also amazing in audiovisual aspects....

  • Charity 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    Chasing a train in a reed field, an empty scene that was shot in an hour in the rainy season but overflowed with complex and poetic scenes, or ethnic music that is closely linked to the character’s psychology or the plot. Mother's silent cry after father finally returned. The perfect debut in my eyes. This time, the trilogy is finally completed. It must be a movie worth rewatching on the big screen, because they will always force you to examine your material life, emotional life, and family...

  • Michelle 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    "The third world is black and white. Capitalism is 3D. Ren Er bombarded me with fire and water." The third world has the soil of realism, but it is not the "big four" or "empty". has absolute meaning. Some plots: The protagonist's family is impoverished, but he gives beggars a favor. The impoverished family was suddenly hit by a disease, and the house was leaked. The head of the family with the dream of writing poetry was defeated by the lack of...

  • Eliane 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    Satyajit Rey's stunning debut, also known as the opening of the "New Wave of Indian Cinema". In a natural and poetic way, with a sympathetic tone and technique, it shows the life of an Indian family that is getting more and more miserable until it falls into despair, and truly describes the people of India. Like animals, people struggle to survive. A rainstorm can destroy all expectations. The last family's departure is a little hope rekindled in despair, breaking the shackles of old concepts...

  • Maeve 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    Looking at life in the adult world through the eyes of a child is always fun, and this film is no exception. Watching children experience poverty and death accompanied by adults’ day-to-day visions of an improved life is always a bit of a surprise. Desolate and helpless, but life and nature will not be touched by this, step by step, they have to step down on their own, and life will move...

  • Zane 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    I can see the beauty, from the text in the title to the scenery to the people, but I can't relate it at all. . Someone on the left is crying, someone on the right is snoring, and my heart is still like water. . I only occasionally feel that I can't watch this kind of film anymore. Indian men also exist just to make trouble....

  • Fabiola 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    SIFF Xintiandi UME. The first of Apu's trilogy, the pain of living, is too real, and was even rated as Cannes Best Human Document. Before the screening, he chatted with the Indian man next door, and he said that he had watched it seven times and especially appreciated the music. After adding WeChat, I found that he had just published a review of the Apu trilogy in Shanghai Daily, which made my whole movie viewing experience very...

  • Brandy 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    In this land, young girls may enter marriage with fear and anticipation, or they may die in a stormy night - no matter what kind of ending has nothing to do with happiness, in the dark shadow reflected by lightning, there is still a hidden love for the gods. Mother's last prayer (even though I haven't learned to pray yet), will the gods make the best arrangement for us? Such a land, after all, is because of poverty, and we always leave it eventually, always before the distant train arrives, and...

Extended Reading
  • Briana 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    Sad but not sad, endless aftertaste

    The two-hour movie describes life very plainly and plainly. The rhythm is slow and there is not much dialogue, but it is elegant. A lot of time is quiet, only movements and expressions. Sometimes the camera will stay on the face of the characters for a period of time without language, sometimes...

  • Creola 2022-03-22 09:02:28

    New realism in India

    From this film, I can see many shadows of neorealism, daily trivial habits, such as the old aunt's habit of drinking water, and always watering the plant at the end; the details of my mother's cooking, etc. In addition, at the end, the family of three rides on an ox cart and marches towards the...

Pather Panchali quotes

  • Chinibas, Sweet-seller: Do you want anything? Delicious fried cream, sweet lentil balls, coconut candies, chandrapuli, sweet cheese balls.

  • Apu: Didi, have you ever seen a train?

    Durga: Sure.

    Sarbojaya Ray: Don't lie.

    Apu: You know where the tracks are? Where?

    Durga: Past the big meadow and beyond the rice fields.

    Apu: Shall we go one day?