After Them the Monsoon: Two Worlds Collide in India
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
Fatal culture clash, imperialist entitlement, forbidden passion between master and servant: the ingredients of the Indian director Santosh Sivan’s period piece “Before the Rains” may be awfully familiar, but the film lends them the force of tragedy. From the moment Moores (Linus Roache), an arrogant British planter in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala, hands a gun to his loyal manservant T. K. (Rahul Bose), you can be certain that the weapon will be discharged and lives destroyed.
Moores has a grand scheme to build a road into the jungle, the better to transport spices for export, but it must be completed before the monsoon season. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (3797 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 9 Maggio 2008
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