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Devi [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Satyajit Ray.

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The Criterion Collection, 2021.

Kālī (Hindu deity) -- Drama.

Women -- India -- Drama.

Hindu goddesses -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 1102.

9781681438894 :

Alternate title:

Goddess [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Bengali audio; English subtitles.

Director, Satyajit Ray.

Chhabi Biswas, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore.

Master filmmaker Satyajit Ray explores the conflict between fanaticism and free will in Devi (The Goddess), issuing a subversively modern challenge to religious orthodoxy and patriarchal power structures. In the waning days of mid-nineteenth-century India's feudal system, after his son leaves for Kolkata to complete his studies, a wealthy rural landowner is seized by the notion that his beloved daughter-in-law (a hauntingly sad-eyed Sharmila Tagore) is the reincarnation of the goddess Kali a delusion that proves devastating to the young woman and those around her. The opulently stylized compositions and the chiaroscuro lighting by cinematographer Subrata Mitra heighten the entrancing expressionistic intensity of this domestic tragedy, making for an experience that is both sublime and shattering.

MWT rating: NR.

Religious films.

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