The World of Apu

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Priyan B This is cinema! 10/10 Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/08/24 Full Review John W Fantastic film about life, love, grief, and parenthood. One of the best ever, and a fitting end to the awesome Apu Trilogy. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/01/24 Full Review Dani G A great way to close the story of poor Apu. Every movie was slightly better than the previous one Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/21/23 Full Review Audience Member For westerners, like myself, the beauty and wonder of the Indian culture and humanity of the people was supremely captured in Ray's masterpiece. I've seen the film three times and each reveals new insights. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member By now I'm quite interested in this Apu character but the final instalment was a bit too wild and we'll polished compared to the first two. This Apu didn't convince me, seemed like a different character. Finding a beautiful wife, you knew the happiness couldn't last do it was set up for another untimely death. The. He goes a bit mad… as you would if you were Apu and finally reunited with young child, helping him find happiness again ahhhh. Sombre but lacking grit, I found the pacing too jaunty but the narrative arc is now complete and I can forget about Apu. Not a bad little trilogy this. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review William L C'mon Ray, I'm just living life over here tryna see a lot of interesting movies and you gotta hit me with some feelings. The open-ended conclusion of Apu's tale covers his adulthood, and cannot resist incorporating what is at this point a tradition of some form of terrible personal loss. Though less groundbreaking than Pather Panchali and less thematically unique than Aparajito (with its greater depth with respect to the Indian identity), Apur Sansar is a profoundly human story that is made all the more affecting by the existence of the prior two films. Subjecting a character to a series of painful setbacks over a span of decades as he attempts to navigate life, eventually pushing him into the depths of introspective, aimless depression, only to provide a single, redemptive moment as he connects with the son whom he has been avoiding, finally confronting reality and finding in it a hope for the future for both of their sakes; it may seem naive and panderingly melancholic on paper, but it is absolutely not. Instead, it's philosophy in film. It's amazing that this is Chatterjee's debut performance in film, he feels magnetic. I'm still a bit torn as to the pacing of this film; at times it seems off and inconsistent, but often the erratic nature ends up feeling intentional, heightening the spontaneity of certain moments. Regardless, Apur Sansar is a beautiful film and a worthy conclusion to the Apu Trilogy. (4.5/5) Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/21 Full Review Read all reviews

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