Devi Blu-ray Hollywood Classics Documentary on Mackendrick

Documentary on Mackendrick

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Superior action drama with parallels to Peter Weir's 'Witness'

The film moves at a pace through the years 1918 to 1922 featuring some great performances and memorable set-pieces

A bleak but well executed

Devi Blu-ray Hollywood Classics Documentary on Mackendrick'Devi' aka 'The Goddess' Director: Satyajit Ray (1960) Bengali English subtitles Criterion collection 4k restoration includes interviews, video essay Ray's critique of blind religious faith. In late nineteenth century rural India after his son leaves to finish his studies in the city, leaving his young wife behind, a feudal landlord has a vision and is seized by the notion that his daughter in law is an incarnation of the 'Mother Goddess'. Soon he