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Movie Overview
Cast
• Linus Roache
• Rahul Bose
• Nandita Das
Director
• Santosh Sivan
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - for violent content and a scene of sexuality
Before the Rains (2008)

REVIEWS
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OFCS Rating: 60% Fresh
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C
"Well-mannered, high-minded and, despite its potentially inflammatory dramatic arc, curiously tepid."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

3/5
"A poignant drama about an Englishman's power games in colonial India that bring havoc to the lives of those around him."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

3.5/5
"an impressive cross-cultural achievement for director-cinematographer Sivan"  Jaman  Jay Antani

C
"contrived plot and shallow characters just don't hold up long term"  Old School Reviews  John A. Nesbit

2.5/4
"A resolutely old fashioned story of personal tribulations played out against a backdrop of political turmoil, Sivan's film is well acted, beautifully photographed and oddly reassuring."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

"[A] fierce, uncompromising critique of... nonchalant imperialism, and maybe even of just men on the whole... Which makes this one of the most sneakily feminist movies I've seen in a while."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

2/4
"Mechanical through and through."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

5/10
"...fails to deliver on the potentially intriguing premise of an interracial romance set in India in 1937, against the backdrop of the Indian independence movement"  Playback:stl  Sarah Boslaugh

C
"[Santosh] Sivan makes it all quite beautiful with verdant imagery and tastefully melodramatic direction, but at the cost of emotional and social ambiguities"  Seattle Post-Intelligencer  Sean Axmaker

"Click here to see reivew"  Wolf Entertainment Guide  William Wolf
OFCS Rating: 60% Fresh
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