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Water (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 87
Fresh: 79
Rotten:8
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Consensus: This compassionate work of social criticism is also luminous, due to both its lyrical imagery and cast.
Runtime: 2 hrs 20 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release: Apr 28, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $3,113,922
Synopsis: When Deepa Mehta first began filming WATER in 2000, angry fundamentalist mobs burned her sets and threatened her life. The Indian government claimed it could not protect her, and the project had to wait four years before finally filming in... [More]
Starring: Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas, Kalbushan Kharbadna, Waheeda Rehman
Director: Deepa Mehta
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06/02/07
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05/31/07
Powerful tale that unfortunately fails to provide any kind of real historical context for the oppression of Indian widows.
04/03/07
Perhaps the adversity of making the movie allowed the filmmakers and actors to empathize more fully with the subject and characters of Water.
02/22/07
... the incidence of violence against women at home or in institutions give Mehta's 1938 tale a currency that confirms the old notion "actions change, but attitudes do not."
02/10/07
Surprisingly, not much has changed in the last 70 years. The tradition of sequestering widows continues in India. Mehta deserves praise for spotlighting this situation. WATER is one of the year's best films.
01/11/07
Though it's a story told with feminist sensitivity, it's also the most relevant perspective for such injustice to women.
12/21/06
Full of lush, fluid cinematography and evocative music, Water is an important look at a social injustice, and Mehta's most accomplished film yet.
11/10/06
... gorgeous and heartbreaking... full of glorious, unforgettably pretty images... But they do not overpower Mehta's involving drama or the exceptionally fine performances of her stars...
08/04/06
Quite possibly the best picture of the year thus far, with no fewer than three of the most luminous female performances I have ever seen onscreen.
07/19/06
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07/08/06
Mehta prevailed, and this scandalous, beautiful and very moving tale of repression, hope and a tragedy is her triumph, and Hindu India's shame.
07/07/06
Water simmers at the injustice heaped upon these women because of religious tradition.
06/27/06
Both a high-minded glossy soap opera, in the tradition of a Darryl F. Zanuck forbidden-love potboiler like 'Island in the Sun,' and a fierce expose of the mistreatment of women encouraged by fundamentalist religious tradition...
06/26/06
For those who can accept Mehta's approach, it's a remarkably rewarding film.
06/14/06
All the pat plotting and discourse in the world can't extinguish the fire of a film this well-intended, sensitively acted and beautifully filmed.
06/08/06
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