Monsoon Wedding

...another awful US accent from a Ewan McGregor. Director Mira Nair brings none of the vibrancy of her breakout film Monsoon Wedding or even her exuberant Vanity Fair to Earhart's proto-feminist story. Detailing in flashback how she became the...

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...Baby" intensity. These moments are all too fleeting, since Swank and Nair ("Monsoon Wedding") focus on appearances such as Earhart's huge smile and homey charisma, rather than burrowing into this woman's background and soul. The most...

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...most talked-about journeys in history. AMELIA is directed by Mira Nair (THE NAMESAKE, VANITY FAIR, MONSOON WEDDING) from a screenplay by Academy Award winner Ron Bass (RAIN MAN) and Anna Hamilton Phelan. The film is produced by Ted Waitt,...

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...but failed to establish her as a top-rank auteur. Criterion's lovely, features-packed DVD and Blu-ray editions of Nair's sprawling 2001 hit "Monsoon Wedding" might just burnish her rep. In addition to the film itself - a funny,...

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...a sweeping and handsome film. But it falls short of Nair's best work, The Namesake or Monsoon Wedding, and also Swank's most evocative portrayals, in Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby. Amelia's narrative adheres to the...

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...between quick glances, slightly longer looks, a few brief words, and facial expressions, Nair is able to build their love story through the course of the film, to the point where it becomes a far more engrossing love story than that of Aditi...

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...body of work, particularly pulling in the shorts included in the set. The shift to the director's biography in the essay is rough, but Ayer's love of the film and his familiarity with its themes of globalization, migration, and cultural...

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