A Suitable Girl

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A Suitable Girl

2017

1h 30m

Documentary

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Young women in India struggle to maintain their identities amid pressure to marry.

Wendy Ide

Screen International

05/17/2017

While this triptych portrait of three modern Indian women who have decided, for various reasons, to wed in this way provides some insights, it feels like a tiny chink into a vast and complex subject

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Nick Schager

Variety

05/17/2017

A Suitable Girl proves a somber lament for a part of the world still clinging to its restrictive past, at great cost to (particularly) its female population.

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Frank Scheck

The Hollywood Reporter

04/25/2017

Movingly chronicles its subjects' emotional travails and the societal and family pressures they face.

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Radhika Menon

Decider

02/18/2021

A documentary that is simultaneously inquisitive, critical of, and loving toward the complexities of societal expectations alongside an evolving world, and will genuinely open your eyes to the layers of a tradition that aren't typically peeled back.

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Elissa Suh

MUBI

02/27/2020

[It] doesn't upbraid or rail against the practice of arranged marriage that is its central subject, but rather employs it as the context...it questions not, instead offering a clear-eyed and empathetic look into the process.

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Rahul Desai

Film Companion

03/01/2019

That the subjects shed their "chronicling formality" to trust the makers during their life's most transformative period is, in itself, a testament to the exhaustive ambitions of more than just another commentative exercise.

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Nikki F.

@nikfort Jul 2

A really interesting glimpse into the matchmaking and marriage process in India.

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08/26/2020

I really enjoyed it but wished that there had been some subtitles at certain points in the movie.

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04/24/2017

Best doc I've ever seen

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Synopsis

Young women in India struggle to maintain their identities amid pressure to marry.

Director: Sarita Khurana, Smriti Mundhra
Producer: Sarita Khurana, Smriti Mundhra, Jennifer Tiexiera
Screenwriter: Sarita Khurana, Smriti Mundhra, Jennifer Tiexiera
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 19, 2018
Runtime: 1h 30m

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