Sunday, November 27, 2005
GOING NATIVE
Today's Best 1176 NYTimes Film was one of the Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala productions:
It is about two British women, one in the twenties, another now, who cross the cultural line and fall in love with Indian men.
The parallel stories flash back and forth.
Much of the action takes place on the same ground, so buildings and other artifacts appear in both times. This produces a bit of a game of 'can you spot this?'.
It is OK. Not riveting. A lot of the MIJ films are like this. Beautiful to look at and somewhat bland in the story line.
Greta Scacchi is the twenties woman and Julie Christie is in the now.
The men are incidental; many are cads. Brits. Men. Just what you would expect.
Just to round things out there are a couple of Indian cads as well.
I am not being nice. It is a good play and good to watch; not great.
I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5. Average good.
