Indian star John Abraham is superb as a young idealist under the spell of Gandhi and Lisa Ray haunting as a young widow used as a prostitute to pay the rent of the ashram. Ten year old Sarala is a revelation as an eight year old child bride delivered to the ashram after the death of her much older husband, and of a course, a child's innocence disrupts the ashram to no end. Strong performances dominate the film and though there are moments that tend to bog down, all is made right with the astonishing final ten minutes in which we leave the theatre filled with hope and seing the characters find some redemption. WATER.Deepa Mehta's deeply moving account of a group of Indianj widows living in an ashram in thirties India, during the rise of Mahatma Gandhi is an extraordinary cultural awakening that will leave the viewer breathless. Thus far I have screened twenty six films and thought to drop a line to give some opinions on what I have saw so far. I am a film critic working out of Toronto and covering the world's finest film festival, the Toronto International Film Festival. Tons of Toronto stuff here! Enjoy!Ĭall me Crippled Critic if you use this. Ahoy, squirts! Quint here before movie #2 at Australian Night of QT Fest.
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