AparajitoU

Directed by Satyajit Ray | India | 1957 | 1h 46m | Bengali w/ English subtitles | Dir. Satyajit Ray. India, 1957. 1h 53m. Bengali/subs. Starring Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal, Kamala Adhikari, Kali Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee.

The second part of Satyajit Ray’s famous trilogy focusses on a young boy leaving home to study in Calcutta. As he progresses from wide-eyed boy to intellectually curious teenager, we witness his progression towards adulthood as well as his complex relationship with his mother. This tenderly expressive and often heart-wrenching film won three top prizes at the Venice Film Festival, including the Golden Lion (Best Film) in 1957.

Reviews

‘Humanist film-making at its best.’
★★★★★
David Parkinson, Empire Magazine

‘It is done with such rare feeling and skill at pictorial imagery, and with such sympathetic understanding of Indian character on the part of Mr. Ray, that it develops a sort of hypnotism’
★★★★★
Bosley Crowther, The New York Times

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Tomorrow (Saturday 27th April)

16:15

Disco Boy 15
1h 33m | French w/ English subtitles
A Belarusian migrant arrives in Paris and joins the Foreign Legion in order to attain French citizenship in this dreamlike debut by Italian filmmaker Giacomo Abbruzzese, starring Franz Rogowski (Passages).

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A late night talk show descends into bloody chaos as an evil force is unleashed on an unsuspecting TV audience. A devilishly constructed and wickedly funny found-footage horror set in 1970s America.

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20:30

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1h 46m | Japanese w/ English subtitles
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