Dir: Satyajit Ray
1964
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Satyajit Ray's Charulata (The Lonely Wife) is based on a popular Indian novel and marks a significant point in Ray's career, as it bears the influence of Western film on his directorial style. This was obvious to me from the onset and unfortunately not a good thing in my opinion. Thankfully this shift in style and influence was reasonably short lived in his career. I found the over-dramatic ending to be quite hard to swallow and it certainly took away from my overall enjoyment. A good film but certainly not the best from Satyajit Ray but then he set his own standards very high.
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