The Home and the World (1984)

Original title

ঘরে বাইরে

Directed by

Satyajit Ray

Genre

drama film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 20m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy landowner invites a British-educated friend to his home, stirring romantic and ideological tensions with his wife. The story examines clashing loyalties between tradition and change in early 1900s Bengal.

thoughtfulintimatepoignantslow-pacedemotionally layeredmelancholiccontemplative

What happens

Ghare Baire (transl. The Home and the World) is a 1984 Indian Bengali-language romantic drama film directed and written by Satyajit Ray. The film is based on Rabindranath Tagore's novel of the same name, and stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Swatilekha Chatterjee and Jennifer Kendal. The film has a complex portrayal of several themes including nationalism, women's emancipation, spiritual and materialistic takes on life, tradition versus modernism, and others. Ray prepared a script for it in the 1940s, long before he made his first film Pather Panchali. The film was in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. At the 32nd National Film Awards, it won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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