Mahanagar (1963)

a.k.a The Big City

Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.

Windill

A great movie about women empowerment.

3 years ago

Local Hero -- aka MestnyiGeroi

What a beautiful film. This deserves a far better print and subtitles than those on the DVD available commercially in North America. See KG for vastly better quality on both fronts.

11 years ago

Limbesdautomne

If the western films sometimes show the birth of society within a small city, Ray shows how some of these cities, or their inhabitants, grow in bigger cities.

Read more in French on La Saveur des goûts amers.

7 years ago

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