Charulata (1964; Dir.: Satyajit Ray)
Canon Fodder Episode 35
After the French fever dream of India Song, Daniel and Corys take their first real trip to the home country of Bengali maestro Satyajit Ray. But were your hosts stimulated enough by this deceptively simple story of an under-stimulated Calcutta woman breaking out of her shell in a pre-independence 1879 to add Charulata to their Canon?
Elsewhere, Daniel offers his thoughts on Robert Pattinson as a widely cloned sci-fi test dummy in Bong Joon-Ho’s Mickey 17.
CHARULATA FACTS & FIGURES
Sight & Sound  2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #169 (tied)
World premiere: Apr. 16, 1964
IMDB synopsis: “The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.”
CLIPS & CLIPPINGS
Trailer for Charulata
“Fule Fule” – The Swing Scene
A vision of “My Village”
NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE
Vertigo (1958; Dir.: Alfred Hitchcock)
IMDB synopsis: “A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.”
Our review of Vertigo comes out on April 22!
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