Word: pather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aparajito (Indian). The brilliant 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...
Starting with a modest budget, little equipment, and no experience, Satyajit Ray has proceduced an imaginative and technically impressive film. Encouraged by the success of Pather Panchali, he is expanding his theme into a trilogy. If the others are as good, the project will become a classic...
Perhaps the West Bengali government was surprised--even disappointed--when they first viewed the movie. They saw not a fast-moving, glossy travelogue, but a naturalistic essay, viewing life as a lament of the path. Pather Panchali focuses on a rural Brahman family whose house is falling down. The gate is off its hinges, the yard full of rubbish, and the shutters loose...
...When Pather Panchali leans towards the neo-realist, its most striking scenes show Auntie's hollow, shrewd, dying face; it pictures her eating wet meal with long, bony fingers, wiping dirt off her crackled skin, hobbling pitifully around the yard. At intervals she has snarling verbal bouts with Mother, who, though warm-hearted, is not the ideal of the Ladie's Home Journal. In fact, Mother often wishes Old Auntie would drop dead...
...would be impossible to capture Pather Panchali in a glib formula. Five human beings, from young Apu to Old Auntie, each sings his or her own eloquent "lament of the path." But the film is never depressing, for however great the sorrows, they face the path resolutely...