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The Terrorist (1999)

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When writing on a film from a country with a strong cinema culture, it is tempting to compare it with past masters or predict it will hearken a renaissance. However, The Terrorist is unique; respectful of India's cinematic icons, it then breaks both from sensationalism and sentimentalism. With the poeticism that marks Indian cinema, symbols which define the protagonists emotions - the sound of water, a tear, a touch, a flowering tree - acquire remarkable resonance as our hero is identified as a

Unrated, 1 hr. 35 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Dec 5, 2000

Phaedra Cinema

All Critics (35) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (3) | DVD (4)

Ayesha Dharkar commands the center. She has expressive, liquid eyes to die for, as well as an out-of-whack sense of inner gravity. And water beads up on her spectacularly.

June 22, 2011 Full Review Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Comment

As visually poetic and slow-paced as Terrence Malick

May 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Old School Reviews | Comment

It's not often a movie comes along that affects you like this.

November 22, 2002 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
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This is a movie that famously took on a new relevance after the September 11th attacks. The film is about a woman who?s a member of a Siri Lankan terrorist group almost certainly based on the Tamil Tigers. Early on, the woman is assigned to assassinate someone by suicide bombing; the rest of the film follows her as

May 16, 2009
Dracula787
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great & real about the affects of love on one's perspective of priorities in life... without love, one's life might seem all for naught but with love, one might do anything to live... very capitivating, intense & current... Ayesha Dharker was fantastic...

October 16, 2009
ristrawn
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