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Pather Panchali

1955

Satyajit Ray

Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Subir Bannerjee, Chunibala Devi

8.2

6,560

Drama Tells the story of a Bengali family driven by bad fortune. The father, Harihara, is a secular clerk, healer, dreamer and poet. Sabajaya, the mother, works to feed the family and receives with hope and joy the new birth of Apu. First film of the Apu trilogy.

	Author	Review
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"Beautiful, sometimes funny, and full of love"	POS
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"One of the legendary debuts in the history of film"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"['Pather Panchali'] creates a world so convincing that it becomes, for a time, another life we might have lived (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"[It] is one of those rare exotic items (...) that should offer some subtle compensations to anyone who has the patience to sit through its almost two hours."	POS
United Kingdom	Stuart Jeffries The Guardian	"Satyajit Ray and cinematographer Subrata Mitra showed a miraculous gift for lighting scenes, coaxing intimate and utterly convincing performances from children and other non-professional actors"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"It remains a miracle of lyrical realism (...) A masterpiece, inarguably."	POS

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