Screening of Indian Film “Water”

Wed 06 Feb 2013, 8 pm
Tadioto Art Space

From the organizer:
Come to watch Asian film series with WATER, a 2005 film directed by Deepa Mehta and written by Anurag Kashyap. The film is set in India under British rule. Child marriage was common, while widows were expected to spend their lives in poverty.

Winner:
2006, Genie Award for Best Actress, Seema Biswas[6]
2006, Genie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, Giles Nuttgens
2006, Genie Award for Best Original Score, Mychael Danna
2006, Golden Kinnaree Award at Bangkok International Film Festival for Best Film[7]
2006, The Silver Mirror Award at Festival Films from the South in Oslo (Film fra sør) for Best Film.

Kevin Thomas writing in the Los Angeles Times:
“For all her impassioned commitment as a filmmaker, Mehta never preaches but instead tells a story of intertwining strands in a wholly compelling manner. “Water,” set in the British colonial India of 1938, is as beautiful as it is harrowing, its idyllic setting beside the sacred Ganges River contrasting with the widows’ oppressive existence as outcasts. The film seethes with anger over their plight yet never judges, and possesses a lyrical, poetical quality. Just like the Ganges, life goes on flowing, no matter what. Mehta sees her people in the round, entrapped and blinded by a cruel and outmoded custom dictated by ancient religious texts but sustained more often by a family’s desire to relieve itself of the economic burden of supporting widows. As a result, she is able to inject considerable humor in her stunningly perceptive and beautifully structured narrative. “Water” emerges as a film of extraordinary richness and complexity…”

Language: original language with English subtitles.

Free entrance.