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Trishna (2011)

Trishna poster
Directed by
Michael Winterbottom
Genre
drama film
Country
India, United Kingdom, Sweden
Runtime
1h 57m
Rated
R
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 54 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young Indian woman falls in love with a wealthy British man. Their relationship takes a dark turn as she faces betrayal and hardship.

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What happens

Trishna is a 2011 drama film, written and directed by Michael Winterbottom, and starring Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed. A British-Swedish-Indian co-production, it is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles. It is Winterbottom's third Hardy adaptation, after Jude and The Claim. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2011, and after some further festival appearances it saw its first cinema release in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 9 March 2012. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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