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Release Date:
19 December 1951 (France)
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Beauty...Mystery...Delightful Humor...
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Three adolescent girls growing up in Bengal, India, learn their lessons in life after falling for an older American soldier. full summary | add synopsis
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American
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Bengal
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India
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Teenage Girl
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Ex Soldier
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards.
Another 1 win
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1 nomination
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(2 articles)
Wes Anderson’s Indian summer
(From t5m.com. 15 August 2008, 5:04 AM, PDT)
Restored Classic Movies To Be Screened at Cannes
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 29 April 2005)
(From t5m.com. 15 August 2008, 5:04 AM, PDT)
Restored Classic Movies To Be Screened at Cannes
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 29 April 2005)
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Spellbinding, magnificent
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Nora Swinburne | ... | The Mother |
| Esmond Knight | ... | The Father |
| Arthur Shields | ... | Mr. John |
| Suprova Mukerjee | ... | Nan |
| Thomas E. Breen | ... | Capt. John |
| Patricia Walters | ... | Harriet |
| Radha | ... | Melanie |
| Adrienne Corri | ... | Valerie |
| June Hillman | ... | Narration (voice) |
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Also Known As:
Le fleuve (France)
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Runtime:
99 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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This film was instrumental in launching the careers of Satyajit Ray - an assistant on the film - and Subrata Mitra, who went on to become Ray's cinematographer.
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Continuity: (At 00:36:54) A cigarette appears from nowhere.
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A really glorious, spellbinding movie. Filmed in Bengal, India, on the Ganges, it captures the essence of India, the timeless quality of life on the Ganges, without being patronizing.
This is a coming of age movie about three teenage girls, two British and one Anglo-Indian, and how their lives are affected by the arrival of a one-legged American war veteran. It's very easy to fall into sentimentality in a movie like this, but Renoir avoids this obvious pitfall. Though I have to say, I found this film very moving.
It helps that this movie is filmed in Technicolor, and is one of the best uses of Technicolor of that era.
Some of the performers were amateurs, including the actor who played the veteran and some of the children, but overall the performances are outstanding. A fine, low-key performance by Esmond Knight. This was the only film for Patricia Walters, who played Harriet, and Thomas Breen, the war veteran who played Captain Jack, never made any other movies. Watch for Arthur Shields, the brilliant Irish actor, as father of Nan.