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...Aparajito (Indian). The second part of a trilogy (the first was Father Panchali), made by Director Satyajit Ray, telling the story of India's social revolution in terms of one family's sorrows and beatitudes. The completed trilogy promises to be one of the greatest movies ever made...
...Aparajito (Indian). The second part-the first was Pather Panchali-of a trilogy, made by Director Satyajit Ray, telling the story of India's social revolution in terms of one family's sorrows and beatitudes. The completed trilogy promises to be one of the greatest movies ever made...
...Aparajito (Edward Harrison) is Part Two of a trilogy, made in India by an amateur moviemaker (now turned professional) named Satyajit Ray. that promises to be one of the cinema's outstanding masterpieces. The trilogy is based on one of modern India's most popular novels, Pather Panchali, by Bibhuti Bannerji. Part One, Pather Panchali (TIME, Oct. 20). told a story of village life in northern India; of how a family tree was felled by the wind of the world; and of how the survivors, in anguish and confusion, broke with the medieval past and set out upon...
...Aparajito will probably be weighed in the balance with Pather Panchali and found slightly wanting. But such a comparison misses the point: as the second movement in a composition, Aparajito is meant to express the consequences of the first movement, Father Panchali, and to prepare the mood of the third movement, Apu Jagat ("The World of Apu"), which will probably be released in the U.S. in late 1959. In a pictorial sense the film lacks something of the noble simplicity of Father Panchali, but if its images are more sophisticated, they are no less brilliant and effective. What is perhaps...