The Stranger [VHS]

The Stranger [VHS]
by Satyajit Ray

The Stranger [VHS]

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Actor: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey, Mamata Shankar, Robi Ghosh, Utpal Dutt
Director: Satyajit Ray
Cinematographer: Barun Raha
Producer: Satyajit Ray
Writer: Satyajit Ray
Editor: Dulal Dutta
Producer: Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Producer: Gérard Depardieu
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 97 minutes
Release Date: 1998-03-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: First Run Features
Studio: First Run Features

VHS Movie Reviews of The Stranger [VHS]

Movie Review: one of the great later films of Satyajit Ray......
Summary: 5 Stars

Anila (Mamata Shankar) and Sudhindra Bose (Deepankar De) welcome the unexpected arrival of Anila's long lost uncle, Manmohan Mitra (Utpal Dutt) with great hesitation. For the first time in nearly three decades, he shows up, out of the blue, and the first thought that runs across the couple's mind is that this man is attempting something [...] and dishonest with them. As the story progresses and Mr. Mitra reveals more and more stories from his past, quite openly, the more their suspicion dissapates.

Filmmaker Satyajit Ray was always a marvelous storyteller, and this film doesn't pale in comparison to his other films. It is entertaining and engaging.......

Movie Review: Insightful, engaging and entertaining!
Summary: 5 Stars

From the earliest films, The Apu Trilogy (1959) to his latest The Stranger (Agantuk), from India, filmmaker Satyajit Ray has garnered numerous awards and is recognized as one of the greatest directors. With his work, he wore many hats, including that of a writer and a graphic artist.

Ray was born in 1921 and died in 1992 and made 40 films and documentaries. If you enjoy foreign film, see at least one of Satyajit Ray's films. Especially this one! Characters are good, dialogue is excellent.

Filmed in 1991, most of the setting takes place in the house, there is no soundtrack, it is 120 minutes and in color. Don't watch while sleepy, there is great challenging dialogue you won't want to miss.

Anali Bose, her husband, Sudhindra Bose, and their young son live well with servants in India. Anali receives a letter that an uncle, Manomohan Mitra, is coming to visit and she saw him when she was only 2 years old. Anali's husband believes him to be an imposter.

Anali follows tradition to treat a guest with respect, but her husband's suspicions lay heavy on her mind. Meanwhile, the uncle, Mitra, learns the doubt the family has. Mitra is a world traveler, fluent in many languages, a learned man, and has a keen philosophical sense of life.

The husband, Sudhindra, at two different times, invites "qualified" friends over to challenge and grill Mitra to find the truth.

"Come Clean or Clear Out"
Those are the exact English words said by one frustrated interrogators during one of the grillings that the uncle is subjected to. The grilling sessions are quite amusing and informative.

English language widely used.
What has struck me about this film were the many uses of the English language and phrases intermingled and spoken by all. It is puzzling.

Highly recommend Ray's
Jalsaghar - The Music Room (1958): An aging feudal landlord's prized jovial music room reveals the emptiness, cold and decay as the entire palace slowy deteriorates.

Movie Review: Wonder and the Life of Philosophy in Modern Society
Summary: 5 Stars

This remarkable film is in many ways a self portrait of Satyajit Ray because he was none other than an anthropologist and philosopher in the true sense of playful, childlike wonder.
This is the the story of how how a life of curiousity and wonder have to survive in this cruel and foolish world which judges everything in materialistic terms.
The philosopher is always and everywhere a stranger,though full of joy, simplicity and wonder at Being which is fervently demonstrated in the 'cosmic magician' sequence. Only those with the child in them alive will understand!

Movie Review: A monster can look very sociable, and yet
Summary: 5 Stars

This film is rather important, even today. It is about the chase for a Nazi war criminal who has managed to erase his tracks and has emigrated to the US where he managed to integrate the good society of a small town. He was responsible for the final solution in one important concentration camp. The first idea that comes clearly from the film is that a criminal of that type can never reform and is a perverted mind and man forever. He has to be caught and neutralized. He has to be brought to court to answer for his crimes. The film is quite well done and the suspense is rather well built. The end is spectacular and very demonstrative of what such a criminal can come to if he feels menaced. Even love cannot erase his crimes and cannot make him come to terms with his responsibility because he has no conscience any more. To be shown to young audiences for them to see what war and fascism can lead to.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Movie Review: gotta see
Summary: 5 Stars

Extremely engaging work, excellent acting by utpal dutt

I was expecting some sort of twist in the end, because utpal dutt seems to lead us into not believing in who he really is

Avery educating film finally and a window into ray's mind in terms of all things intellectual.

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