The Elephant God
This cycle allows us to discover in restored versions six films directed by Satyajit Ray after the success of The Apu Trilogy and The Music Room, which we are also presenting.These movies, shot from the 1960's onwards, sometimes less known, reflect different aspects of Indian society, just like Ray's cinema, which testifies to the finesse of his direction and the modernity of his subjects. They allow us to apprehend some of the less considered aspects of the Indian filmmaker's work: the feminist dimension of The Big City, Charulata or The Coward, the taste for comedy in The Holy Man, the writing of a rare original screenplay in The Hero, the exploration of color and gender in The Elephant God... Not to mention the art of music, that was composed in these six films by the filmmaker himself.
Detective Feluda, accompanied by his young assistant Topshe and his friend the mystery writer Jatayu, is charged with finding a small, valuable statue of the god Ganesh that has gone missing in Benares. Feluda sets out to find the statue. His suspicions soon turn to a dangerous gangster well known in the city, while the festival of Durga is being prepared and a mysterious miracle worker, who calls himself the Fish Man, is attracting crowds.
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray was an Indian film director, screenwriter, author, and composer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential film directors in the history of cinema. He is celebrated for works including The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959), The Music Room (1958), The Big City (1963), Charulata (1964), and the Goopy–Bagha trilogy (1969–1992). Ray was born in Calcutta to author Sukumar Ray and Suprabha Ray. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves (1948) during a visit to London. Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955), won eleven international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. Ray did the scripting, casting, scoring, and editing for the movie and designed his own credit titles and publicity material. Outside filmmaking, he was a writer, editor, illustrator, graphic designer, and film critic.
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Après avoir réalisé la trilogie d’Apu, qui lui a valu une reconnaissance internationale, Satyajit Ray resserre en quelque sorte son approche : il poursuit sa fresque de l’Inde à travers une série de portraits intimistes qui ne portent plus sur l’entièreté d’une vie mais sur des instants décisifs de l’existence. (...)
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