Reel 57a: Wedding Blues, pt1
Words and Movies
English - July 14, 2023 20:42 - 49 minutes - 46.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFilm History TV & Film Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Weddings are funny things, but mostly if you're not directly involved with them.
They're typically big and with that bigness comes the big drama that comes with large numbers of people coming together in one place. But there's also a commonality to these events, even if the specific rituals are different.
In this episode we continue our Around the World in Twenty Films series, first with a stop in India, to check out 2001's Monsoon Wedding, directed by Mira Nair. It's a comedy that nonetheless has a dark-ish storyline getting lighter toward the end, and a second, lighter story getting darker toward the end. We see many of the events leading up to an arranged marriage of two young people. Will the events of the movie affect the wedding itself? Who knows! (Well, we do. We saw the film and we're reviewing it, so.)
Stay tuned for Part Two when we go to another part of India, then jump to Denmark for After the Wedding, from 2006 and directed by Susanne Bier.
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