Passage to India
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Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• NTSC
In Theaters : 25 January, 1985
Video Release : 07 December, 1992 |
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Passage to India Customer Reviews
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He eats more than the English... and only fruit and rice!
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I passed this film off as a tepid, tedious last gasp by David Lean to reclaim his throne when I saw it, tragically, on home video back in 1986. This DVD release floored me. What the devil was I thinking?? Perhaps age and experience have broadened my horizons, but this is by far Lean's most profound epic out of the big five (Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence, Zhivago and that gorgeous artistic disaster, Ryan's Daughter). I watched it over and over and over again, reveling in the way the film moves from one shot to the next. Lean should have won the Academy Award for Best Editing that year, for you have not and will never again see editing this deliberate, this precise and this creative (the moon shot comes to mind).
I eventually did get to see the film on the big screen; the Egyptian Theatre was having a David Lean retrospective and "Passage" was the last to show at the event. The audience was packed and they laughed and gasped and applauded whereas with "Lawrence" a few nights before they sat there yawning and dozing. Lean, with his "Passage," has created a film as tense and mysterious as Hitchcock and makes you love it for 2 hours and 43 minutes. Most impressively, there is hardly any score to the film and the sound is literally half the movie. It was shot 1:85 Flat, not in 2:35 Scope, but after having seen it on the big screen I was amazed at how it left me with the impression that I'd just seen a 70mm widescreen epic. Ernie Day, despite Lean's complaints, has shot an extraordinarily three dimensional film. "Lawrence" doesn't look this good.
As for the casting of Alec Guinness as the Indian Godbole - don't worry about it. It was criticized at the time and continues to drawn ire, but Forster clearly states in the book that Godbole has grey eyes, a small moustache and a complexion as light as any European's. He is delightful and well-placed.
To see a film as well knit as "A Passage to India" restores one's faith in the medium of motion pictures. This is not disposable entertainment. |
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