Kantatar (2005)

Original title

কাঁটাতার

Directed by

Bappaditya Bandopadhyay

Genre

drama

Country

India

Runtime

1h 59m

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

The film follows people living in a state of permanent displacement. It shows their complex situation through a deceptively simple style.

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What happens

Kantatar (Bengali: কাঁটাতার, Barbed Wire) is a 2005 Bengali film directed by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay, featuring Sreelekha Mitra, Sudip Mukherjee, and Rudranil Ghosh. It received NETPAC Award at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema, 2007 for its deceptively simple style with which the complex situation of people trapped in a state of permanent displacement is exposed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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