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Outsiders are Mira Nair's specialty. She has always, the filmmaker says, "been drawn to stories of people who live on the margins of society; people who are on the edge, or outside, learning the language of being in between; dealing with the question, 'What, and where, is home...
...suffer the effects. But it is also about -- to the extent that the hallucinatory stream of consciousness can be said to be "about" anything -- transvestism, multinational corporations, military buildups, Hostess cupcakes and rape of every variety. At times, director Reza Abdoh's 135-minute, intermissionless work, co-written with Mira- Lani Oglesby, sounds like the ravings of a paranoid schizophrenic; at times, it is performance art of fever pitch and mute beauty...
...filmmakers include Kate Davis, Alyson Denny, Tina Rathborne, Peggy Stern, Lisa Shaw, Martha Swetzoff and Mira Nair, director of the award-winning Salaam Bombay...
That was my first impression of the Bombay that Mira Nair decided to chronicle in Salaam Bombay...
Directed by Mira Nair...