A film by Tanushre Das , Saumyananda Sahi
With: Tillotama Shome, Chandan Bisht, Sayan Karmakar, Suman Saha
Maya discovers that her husband – an ex-soldier who is suffering from PTSD – is the prime suspect in a murder investigation. She and her teenage son are forced to go to extremes to keep the family together.
Our rate: ***
A particularly fluid script, a gentle, soothing look at each of the characters, facilitating the phenomenon of identification, the family portrait quickly invites us in as both singular, linked to the father’s trauma, and representative of today’s India. The plot, which never fails to surprise, never forgets to consider and summon the viewpoint of each individual (the mother first and foremost, but also the son, the father, the more distant family and the people of the village), offering a very sensitive but also interestingly acute vision of India, as it is very rarely shown. Interesting cinematography and sparing use of music sublimate this lovely film, which is particularly well-written and paced, and which never lapses into sentimentality, tear-jerking or artificiality, but maintains the right distance to make us believe in it perfectly.
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