Word: malas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bandit Queen, written by Mala Sen and directed by Shekhar Kapur, is a vibrant, instructive document with a fierce star performance by Seema Biswas. The film has an Indian heart but a Hollywood pulse; it moves with the fevered outrage of an Oliver Stone melodram--Natural Born Killers meets Heaven and Earth. Most Indian movies are either humid musical fables or languid art films in the Satyajit Ray mold. Bandit Queen is neither. It is an assaultive experience, blistering with ripe obscenities, the frontal nudity of its star and three stark scenes in which Phoolan is raped--enough to have...
...same form works just as well in Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began. The book begins when Artie and his wife Francoise hasten to Vladek's rented summer cottage in the Catskills upon hearing that he has suffered a heart attack. But he hasn't--his second wife, Mala, has left him and Vladek wants to ensure that his son will visit...
...MALA NOCHE. Come to the wild side of . . . well, Portland, Ore., for a drugged-out slice of lice in artfully grungy black and white. The first feature by Gus Van Sant, who was later beloved by critics for Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho, this 1988 homo-erratic melodrama remains his boldest and best...