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Lion (2016)

8.7 (10 Ratings) Rate It

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Five year old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of miles across India, away from...

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)

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Determined to find a new sailing route to India, Christopher Columbus (Gérard Depardieu) convinces...

Nitin Sawhney recommended Latcho Drom (1993) in Movies (curated)

Latcho Drom (1993)

1993 | Documentary, Music

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"This film traces the evolution of flamenco, from its origins in India through Egypt, through eastern Europe to the west – “latcho drom” means safe journey. The director is Romany himself, and there’s no narrator, so the story is told through song and subtitles with no contrivance at all. You feel properly immersed in new worlds as a result – I play flamenco, and you feel the echoes of ancient traditions in it, but this is something else. The most powerful scene is of three women singing on a hilltop about how they’ve been disenfranchised. It’s unbelievably moving."

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Zac Clark recommended Black Narcissus (1947) in Movies (curated)

Black Narcissus (1947)

1947 | Classics, Drama, Drama

6.0

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"The most beautiful movie ever made. The face of an aging nun, photographed in an extreme close-up, has the same power and emotional weight as a lush landscape of the matte-painted mountains of India. Powell and Pressburger understand that both the face and the mountains are landscapes, interior and exterior. Erotic tension has never bubbled under the surface of a movie as well as it bubbles here. When it explodes, it is genuinely insane. Only Isabelle Adjani in Possession comes close to matching Kathleen Byron’s portrait of unhinged madness. To watch Black Narcissus is to know the limits of ecstasy."

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