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08/30/07
Amu (2005)
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Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 16 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 6.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Synopsis: Amu is the story of Kaju, a twenty-one-year-old Indian American woman who returns to India to visit her family. The film takes a dark turn as Kaju stumbles against secrets and lies from her past. A horrifying genocide that took place twenty years ago turns out to hold the key to her mysterious... [More]
Genre: Dramas
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06/23/07
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06/16/07
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A work of evident passion and outrage, Amu is also remarkable for its humanism and persuasive, natural presentation.
06/15/07
Less about finger-pointing than a plea for India to confront its past.
06/15/07
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An admirable labor of love that stumbles dramatically but gets along on its sincere good intentions.
06/14/07
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The flashback sequences are vibrant and intense, and the film’s long closing shot is so dense with feeling for a nation and its people that Bose deserves to be noted as a filmmaker to watch.
06/14/07
[Amu] is clearly a labor of love for the activist filmmaker, as she breaks all the traditional inhibitions of Bollywood to remind the world of -- and, for most of us, reveal for the first time -- one of the most shameful episodes in Indian history.
05/30/07
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The movie has its share of wobbly moments, and the resolution feels a bit like a cop-out.
05/26/07
In Shonali Bose's tightly constructed debut feature (2005) a young Indian-American woman from Los Angeles returns to Delhi for the first time since childhood to visit her relatives.
05/25/07
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[Though] undermined by uneven performances, preachy digressions and a handful of clunky scenes, it's nonetheless compelling on a personal level.
05/25/07
Fails to grab the imagination as it unfolds in familiar TV-movie fashion.
05/25/07
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[Director Bose] has a genuine gift for atmosphere, making the many wordless scenes, in teeming streets and on crowded trains, the movie's best.
05/25/07
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The flat, pat talk is symptomatic of Amu's overriding problem: It has no sense of personal style.
05/25/07
Amu, the ambitious debut feature by Shonali Bose, wears its political heart on its sleeve and is unafraid to tackle big topics: identity, history, truth, injustice.
05/25/07
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1984 may have a certain negative meaning to Westerners ever since Orwell immortalized that futuristic dystopia. But for India's Sikhs, 1984 has a far more dreaded historical significance, and one oddly buried here deep within their collective memory.
05/24/07
Writer-director Shonali Bose makes a sensational feature debut with this moving, powerful and suspenseful film.
05/24/07
Too bad first-time writer-director Shonali Bose's juxtaposition of the personal and the political often feels forced, and like many didactic history lessons, this one's about 20 minutes too long.
05/23/07
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