The Branches of the Tree

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Audience Member Satyajit Ray's second-to-last film touches on themes common to his later work: issues of integrity and corruption, the disintegration of the family, finding one's path in life. Three brothers return home to cope with their father's recent heart attack, their senile grandfather, and the fourth brother (Soumitra Chatterjee, once again) who has been mentally unhinged by a head injury. It's an intelligent film, but one that is too talky, stiff and dry. The production value sometimes looks cheap, in that made-for-TV way that often plagues Ray's color films, although the picnic scene is lovely. What really shocked me was Chatterjee's performance. It's dreadful, but to be fair he did have lousy material to work with. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Perhaps the weakest Ray film... Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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