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

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

May 17, 2017

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Nick Schager

Variety

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.

May 17, 2017

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Frank Scheck

The Hollywood Reporter

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

Apr 25, 2017

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Radhika Menon

Decider

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.

Feb 18, 2021

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Elissa Suh

MUBI

[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.

Feb 27, 2020

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Rahul Desai

Film Companion

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.

Mar 1, 2019

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

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Best doc I've ever seen

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/08/23

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Sarita Khurana

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Smriti Mundhra

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Sarita Khurana

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Smriti Mundhra

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Jennifer Tiexiera

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Sarita Khurana

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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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