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Devi = The goddess

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

DVD special edition.

Languages

In Bengali, with English subtitles.

Performers

Chhabi Biswas, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Karuna Banerjee.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2021]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (99 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

"Master filmmaker Satyajit Ray explores the conflict between fanaticism and free will in Devi (The Goddess), issuing a subversively modern challenge to religious orthodoxy and patriarchal power structures. In the waning days of mid-nineteenth-century India's feudal system, after his son leaves for Kolkata to complete his studies, a wealthy rural landowner is seized by the notion that his beloved daughter-in-law is the reincarnation of the goddess Kali a delusion that proves devastating to the young woman and those around her. The opulently stylized compositions and the chiaroscuro lighting by cinematographer Subrata Mitra heighten the entrancing expressionistic intensity of this domestic tragedy, making for an experience that is both sublime and shattering."--Container.

Notes

Based on the short story by Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay; based on an idea by Rabindranath Tagore.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.

Special features: New 4K digital edition ; new program featuring interviews with actors Sharmila Tagore and Soumitra Chatterjee recorded in 2013 ; new video essay by film scholar Meheli Sen ; new English subtitle translations.

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