Trishna Reviews

Trishna is an admirable effort, but it's too detached and disinterested in the viewer to make an impact. This is a tough film to get through, and even if one makes it to the end, there's little reward to be found.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

An intriguing addition to the work of an erratic but always interesting filmmaker.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Hit the books instead.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Things start off promising, but, by the time the final reel rolls, Winterbottom's too-detached style seems to be willfully wallowing in oversimplified misery.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Trishna engages the potent collisions of the rural and the urban, the poor and the rich, and considers how these interactions unfold in a romance and how they might also destroy it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Winterbottom's socially conscious, contemporary adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles is first-rate.

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Freida Pinto is a goddess among us, but this set-in-India version of Tess of the D'Ubervilles is just so-so.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

...Winterbottom's most gorgeous film to date.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

While the film never delves deep enough into its characters' emotions to be truly spellbinding, it's well worth seeing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Freida Pinto is so incredibly pretty in "Trishna." And so incredibly boring.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Winterbottom has complete control of the film's look and feel, but the story seems to run away from him.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

It's an ambitious and evocative effort derailed in part by a passive lead performance that keeps the material at an emotional distance.

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Pinto's piercingly expressive eyes tell the whole story--the excitement of not only first love but the new, and that innocent hope and romantic idealism slowly, inevitably bled dry.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

A rare unsatisfying swerve from an otherwise reliably provocative career.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Rather than a strong script, Winterbottom relies on a hyperactive camera, as if he were trying to recreate an updated dramatic classic by way of a music video.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

"Trishna" works largely on the strength of Winterbottom's clever updates of a century-old story.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

A loose but nonetheless pretty faithful recasting of Hardy's penultimate tragedy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

A nice inversion of the star-cross'd lovers trope.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Winterbottom gives a bright panorama of Indian life, from the agrarian countryside to the tumult of Jaipur and the sophistication of Mumbai.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The performers seem apathetic about their fates, and the tragedy unfolds with a perfunctory arbitrariness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4