117 mins |
Rated
Not Rated
Directed by Satyajit Ray
Starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal, Gitali Roy
CHELSEA CLASSICS: FROM RAY TO MERCHANT IVORY
CHARULATA (Satyajit, Ray, 1964, 117min)
Satyajit Ray’s exquisite story of a woman’s artistic and romantic yearning takes place in late nineteenth-century, pre-independence India, in the gracious home of a liberal-minded, workaholic newspaper editor and his lonely wife, Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee). When her husband’s poet cousin (Soumitra Chatterjee) comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both creatively inspired and dangerously drawn to him. Based on a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore, Charulata is a work of subtle textures, a delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice.
A natural thematic bridge between the films of Satyajit Ray and the films of Producer/Director team, Merchant/Ivory, Charulata, explores the trappings and subversions of societal expectations.
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CHELSEA CLASSICS: FROM RAY TO MERCHANT IVORY
CHARULATA (Satyajit, Ray, 1964, 117min)
Satyajit Ray’s exquisite story of a woman’s artistic and romantic yearning takes place in late nineteenth-century, pre-independence India, in the gracious home of a liberal-minded, workaholic newspaper editor and his lonely wife, Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee). When her husband’s poet cousin (Soumitra Chatterjee) comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both creatively inspired and dangerously drawn to him. Based on a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore, Charulata is a work of subtle textures, a delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice.
A natural thematic bridge between the films of Satyajit Ray and the films of Producer/Director team, Merchant/Ivory, Charulata, explores the trappings and subversions of societal expectations.
