The film, for all Lean’s innate elegance, is strangely remote and unmoving. It could easily have been a Merchant-Ivory film.
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11/06/07
A Passage to India (1984)
86 %
Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 18 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 7.4/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 44 mins
Synopsis: David Lean returned to filmmaking after a 14-year absence to direct this award-winning adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel. Adela Quested (Judy Davis), a young and spirited Englishwoman, travels to India alongside the somewhat older Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft). Mrs. Moore's hope is that... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Victor Banerjee
Director: David Lean
Reviews
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While the storytelling is rather toothless, A Passage to India is certainly well worth watching for fans of the director's epic style.
11/06/07
Top Critic
Not for literary purists, but if you like your entertainment well tailored, then feel the quality and the width.
06/24/06
Top Critic
Regardless of what one thinks of David Lean and his old fashioned style, the results here - save perhaps for the casting of Alec Guinness as a Hindu professor - are exquisite.
04/24/08
Lean's visually appealing film frequently connects as a social satire and a mystical melodrama of transgressors looking for footholds in psychically threatening territory.
04/21/08
Though not flawless, Lean's swan song is an intelligent adaptation of Forster's complex novel about racil prejudice and sexual repression, flaunting wonderful perfromances from the two leads, Judy Davis and particularly Dame Peggy Ashcroft.
03/19/08
Lean does an excellent job of conveying the repressive nature of British society captured in the novel.
11/06/07
Top Critic
David Lean's studied, plodding, overanalytic direction manages to kill most of the meaning in E.M. Forster's haunting novel of cultural collision in colonial India.
11/06/07
An impeccably faithful, beautifully played and occasionally languorous adaptation of E.M. Forster's classic novel.
11/06/07
Top Critic
Forster's novel is one of the literary landmarks of this century, and now David Lean has made it into one of the greatest screen adaptations I have ever seen.
10/23/04
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The film is very much 'a full theatrical meal,' and one that conveys a lot of 'the multiplicity of life' one seldom sees on the screen these days.
05/20/03
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