Directed by:
Michael WinterbottomScreenplay:
Michael WinterbottomCinematography:
Marcel ZyskindCast:
Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Mita Vashisht, Roshan Seth, Anurag Kashyap, Kalki Koechlin, Amit Trivedi, Huma Qureshi, Aakash Dahiya, Kavita Seth, Pushpendra Singh (more)VOD (1)
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Trishna lives with her family in a village in Rajasthan, India's largest state. As the eldest daughter, she works in a nearby resort to help pay the bills. Jay is the wealthy son of a property developer. When he takes up managing a resort at his father's request, he meets Trishna at a dance and their fates cross. Jay finds every opportunity to win Trishna's affection and she accepts his efforts with shy curiosity. But when the two move to Mumbai and become a couple, Jay's deep family bond threatens the young lovers' bliss. (IFC Films)
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Like the South Indian Jane Austen adaptation I Have Found It (2000), Thomas Hardy's version is an extraordinary experience. Although "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" transformed into the present may lack Victorian logic, it replaces it with its own compact thought world. While I can understand that it may be a problem for some to watch a film with subtitles when the dialogues mix English, Hindi, Punjabi, and Rajasthani, it really couldn't have been more authentic. In the kind face of Freida Pinto, we find everything we need to experience the story of today's Tess in the modern world. It's just too bad that both her literary suitors have been merged here into just one person, and the drama has thus escalated ab absurdum. If you can think about Victorian morality in new contexts, you'll be delighted by this.
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