The concluding part of the trilogy deals with Apu’s manhood. He trains for the priesthood – the traditional family vocation – but in the end, leaves his mother to study in Calcutta, where he finds a new life in “modern India.” 1956.
Throughout the film, Apu gains more life experience. “Aparajito” continues the story of the Bengali family after they have left for the holy city of Benares on the banks of the Ganges. PATHER PANCHALI (SONG OF THE LITTLE ROAD)Ī poetic and intense portrait of an impoverished Brahmin family living in rural Bengal, the film focuses on their young son Apu as he apprehends the beauty and cruelty of the world around him. In 1992, after a prolific career spanning over three decades, Satyajit Ray received an Honorary Award from the Academy “in recognition of his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures, and of his profound humanitarian outlook, which has had an indelible influence on filmmakers and audiences throughout the world.”įriday, September 6 at 7 p.m. It was recently included in Sight & Sound’s 2012 list of the Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time. “Pather Panchali,” Ray’s first film – and first of “The Apu Trilogy” – won acclaim at many international film festivals, including Cannes. After these encounters, and a screening in London of Vittorio De Sica’s “The Bicycle Thief,” Ray’s determination to become a filmmaker took hold. During this time, Jean Renoir visited Calcutta for the shooting of his film “The River” and Ray met with him several times. As an illustrator of book covers, Ray encountered the novel Pather Panchali and was fascinated with the idea of filming it. “The great, sad, gentle sweep of ‘The Apu Trilogy’ remains in the mind of the moviegoer as a promise of what film can be.” – Roger Ebertīorn in Calcutta in 1921, Satyajit Ray was a highly educated man from a family of artists and intellectuals. “Ray’s magic, the simple poetry of his images and their emotional impact, will always stay with me.” – Martin Scorsese WITH A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY SATYA BHABHA ON SEPTEMBER 6 WITH SPECIAL GUESTS ACTRESS SHARMILA TAGORE (“APUR SANSAR”) AND DILIP BASU, FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF THE SATYAJIT RAY FILM AND STUDY CENTER COLLECTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
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