Fire (1996)
Country: CAN
Technical: col 108m
Director: Deepa Mehta
Cast: Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Kulbushan Kharbanda
Synopsis:
The household of a New Delhi family running a takeaway and video store is set loose from its traditional phallocentric moorings when the younger brother takes as his bride a free-thinking young woman. Neglected by her husband and moved by the plight of her sister-in-law, she tentatively initiates a lesbian affair.
Review:
The measured, house-confined narrative is intercut with childhood memories and dramatised allusions to the legendary tale of the wife whose chastity is put to trial by fire and then exiled anyway. The dialogue is in English and not always very audible, and this makes the relatively permissive scenes less arresting, but the performances are fine and the various clashes of morality (fire as desire, fire as purger of sin/desire as life, desire as obstacle to God) are sensitively adumbrated.
Country: CAN
Technical: col 108m
Director: Deepa Mehta
Cast: Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Kulbushan Kharbanda
Synopsis:
The household of a New Delhi family running a takeaway and video store is set loose from its traditional phallocentric moorings when the younger brother takes as his bride a free-thinking young woman. Neglected by her husband and moved by the plight of her sister-in-law, she tentatively initiates a lesbian affair.
Review:
The measured, house-confined narrative is intercut with childhood memories and dramatised allusions to the legendary tale of the wife whose chastity is put to trial by fire and then exiled anyway. The dialogue is in English and not always very audible, and this makes the relatively permissive scenes less arresting, but the performances are fine and the various clashes of morality (fire as desire, fire as purger of sin/desire as life, desire as obstacle to God) are sensitively adumbrated.
Country: CAN
Technical: col 108m
Director: Deepa Mehta
Cast: Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Kulbushan Kharbanda
Synopsis:
The household of a New Delhi family running a takeaway and video store is set loose from its traditional phallocentric moorings when the younger brother takes as his bride a free-thinking young woman. Neglected by her husband and moved by the plight of her sister-in-law, she tentatively initiates a lesbian affair.
Review:
The measured, house-confined narrative is intercut with childhood memories and dramatised allusions to the legendary tale of the wife whose chastity is put to trial by fire and then exiled anyway. The dialogue is in English and not always very audible, and this makes the relatively permissive scenes less arresting, but the performances are fine and the various clashes of morality (fire as desire, fire as purger of sin/desire as life, desire as obstacle to God) are sensitively adumbrated.