{"id":1878,"date":"2013-06-23T17:42:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T16:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?page_id=1878"},"modified":"2014-02-15T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T13:58:57","slug":"the-big-city-mahanagar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/the-big-city-mahanagar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big City (Mahanagar)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Friday, 07 February 2014: The Big City (Mahanagar)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Friday, 07 February 2014, 20:00<\/p>\r\n

Venue<\/strong>: (see Locations and Tickets<\/a> for further details)<\/p>\r\n

Programme category<\/strong>: Forest Row Film Society<\/p>\r\n\r
\nDirector: Satyajit Ray, India 1963, 131 mins, PG<\/p>\n

\u201cHeart-warming, funny, wise and profound. Not to be missed.\u201d Empire<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Satyajit Ray\u2019s finely-drawn study of city life in 1950s India, and of the effect on a traditional family of a modern younger generation in which the daughter-in-law takes employment as a saleswoman. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working-class life, the film constructs a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the contemporary Indian woman.<\/p>\n

“Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.” Akira Kurosawa<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Further reading<\/h4>\n
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  1. The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Time Out<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Strictly Film School<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Essay: The Big City:<\/i> A Woman\u2019s Place<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Film Sufi<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. SatyajitRay.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Trailer<\/h4>\n