THE WORLD OF APU
India, 1959
Original title: Apur Sansar
Director: Satyajit Ray. Subject: from the novel Aparajito by Bibhutibhusan Banerjee. Screenplay: Satyajit Ray. Cinematographer: Subrata Mitra. Editor: Dulal Dutta. Art director: Bansi Chandragupta. Film score: Ravi Shankar. Cast and character: Soumitra Chatterjee (Apu), Sharmila Tagore (Aparna), Alok Chakraborty (Kajal, il figlio di Apu), Swapan Mukherjee (Pulu), Dhiresh Majumdar (Sasinarayan). Production: Satyajit Ray Productions. Length:105’.
Format: DCP. Source and under licence from: Janus Films.
Original version. Subtitles: English
Restoration by Criterion Collection in conjunction with the Academy Film Archive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Beverly Hills, USA).
This final chapter closes the circle of the protagonist’s journey: Apu is now in his early twenties, has dropped out of college and hopes to live as a writer. Alongside his professional ambitions, the film tracks his romantic awakening, which occurs as a result of a very unlikely turn of events.
“Ray’s art lies precisely in the search for a poetic truth. Love is not expressed through the refined interweaving of dialogues or the elaborate construction of a story, but in the movement of a bowed head, of a woman who is combing her hair, in an exchange of glances or laughter. “(Michel Ciment)
Wednesday 20 April 2022, h. 6:00 pm
