Sat July 19, 2014
The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray; India, 1958)
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Part three of Satyajit Ray's much–loved Apu Trilogy, The World of Apu features Soumitra Chatterjee (Charulata, The Elephant God, Distant Thunder, etc.) as the adult Apu. Having decided to become a writer, Apu becomes, quite by accident, a husband as well. When the bridegroom at a wedding he is attending suffers a prenuptial nervous breakdown, Apu is persuaded to replace him in order to save the bride's honor. "If Ray had made nothing but Apur Sansar he would go down in film history as one of the great directors. In essence the film is a love story so fresh and spontaneous that one feels Ray created it entirely out of his own spirit, as if it were the world's first love story" (Pauline Kael).
• Written by Ray, based on the novel Aparajito by Bibhutibhushana Bandyopadhyaya. Photographed by Subrata Mitra. With Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Swapan Mukherjee, Aloke Chakravarty. (103 mins, In Bengali with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project through a collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, the Merchant-Ivory Foundation, and the Film Foundation, From Academy Film Archive, permission Janus Films/Criterion Pictures)
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Part three of Satyajit Ray's much–loved Apu Trilogy, The World of Apu features Soumitra Chatterjee (Charulata, The Elephant God, Distant Thunder, etc.) as the adult Apu. Having decided to become a writer, Apu becomes, quite by accident, a husband as well. When the bridegroom at a wedding he is attending suffers a prenuptial nervous breakdown, Apu is persuaded to replace him in order to save the bride's honor. "If Ray had made nothing but Apur Sansar he would go down in film history as one of the great directors. In essence the film is a love story so fresh and spontaneous that one feels Ray created it entirely out of his own spirit, as if it were the world's first love story" (Pauline Kael).
• Written by Ray, based on the novel Aparajito by Bibhutibhushana Bandyopadhyaya. Photographed by Subrata Mitra. With Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Swapan Mukherjee, Aloke Chakravarty. (103 mins, In Bengali with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project through a collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, the Merchant-Ivory Foundation, and the Film Foundation, From Academy Film Archive, permission Janus Films/Criterion Pictures)
35mm Restored Print!
Part three of Satyajit Ray's much–loved Apu Trilogy, The World of Apu features Soumitra Chatterjee (Charulata, The Elephant God, Distant Thunder, etc.) as the adult Apu. Having decided to become a writer, Apu becomes, quite by accident, a husband as well. When the bridegroom at a wedding he is attending suffers a prenuptial nervous breakdown, Apu is persuaded to replace him in order to save the bride's honor. "If Ray had made nothing but Apur Sansar he would go down in film history as one of the great directors. In essence the film is a love story so fresh and spontaneous that one feels Ray created it entirely out of his own spirit, as if it were the world's first love story" (Pauline Kael).
• Written by Ray, based on the novel Aparajito by Bibhutibhushana Bandyopadhyaya. Photographed by Subrata Mitra. With Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Swapan Mukherjee, Aloke Chakravarty. (103 mins, In Bengali with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project through a collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, the Merchant-Ivory Foundation, and the Film Foundation, From Academy Film Archive, permission Janus Films/Criterion Pictures)
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Part three of Satyajit Ray's much–loved Apu Trilogy, The World of Apu features Soumitra Chatterjee (Charulata, The Elephant God, Distant Thunder, etc.) as the adult Apu. Having decided to become a writer, Apu becomes, quite by accident, a husband as well. When the bridegroom at a wedding he is attending suffers a prenuptial nervous breakdown, Apu is persuaded to replace him in order to save the bride's honor. "If Ray had made nothing but Apur Sansar he would go down in film history as one of the great directors. In essence the film is a love story so fresh and spontaneous that one feels Ray created it entirely out of his own spirit, as if it were the world's first love story" (Pauline Kael).
• Written by Ray, based on the novel Aparajito by Bibhutibhushana Bandyopadhyaya. Photographed by Subrata Mitra. With Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Swapan Mukherjee, Aloke Chakravarty. (103 mins, In Bengali with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project through a collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, the Merchant-Ivory Foundation, and the Film Foundation, From Academy Film Archive, permission Janus Films/Criterion Pictures)
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