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The World of Apu

Apur Sansar

1959

Satyajit Ray

Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty, Swapan Mukherjee ...

8.2

4,445

Drama Forced to abandon his education, Apu´s prospects look bleak until fate intervenes in the form of an insane bridegroom. To save the abandoned bride from public disgrace, Apu marries her, beginning a new life as husband and father. Third and last part of the Apu trilogy.

	Author	Review
United States	Variety	"Wit, tenderness and intrinsic human revelations illuminate this unusual film"	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"Ray, whose grasp of the cinema medium was uncertain in 'Pather Panchali,' his first film, demonstrates in "The World of Apu" that he is master of a complex craft and style"	POS
United States	Peter Keough Boston Globe	"World-class cinema (...) It would become one of the great achievements of film."	POS
United Kingdom	Alan Morrison Empire	"These are must-see movies - humanist film-making at its best (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It creates a world so convincing that it becomes, for a time, another life we might have lived (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"[It] is chock full of little masterstrokes of visual shorthand"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Though the rhythm of the storytelling is choppy and Apu himself seems incompletely realized, the first appearance of the remarkable Sharmila Tagore as his well-to-do bride uplifts the film's middle section"	NEU
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"A great cinematic bildungsroman."	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"A profound act of contemplation, an easy-breathing dramatic study of what it means to live"	POS
United States	Jake Cole Slant	"One of the best showcases of an artist's swift maturation (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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