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Writers: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay(novel), Satyajit Ray(screenplay)
Cast: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Banerjee
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Synopsis: A poor priest strives to make a better life for his family who verily have enough food to eat. He leaves his remote village to search work in Bengal. Leaving his family to endure hardships.
About: Pather Panchali is constantly rated as one of the most important films made! That's saying a lot as supposedly the director and his cinematographer had never made a film until this one!
The first of the Apu trilogy films all directed by Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and Apur Sansar (1959).
Review: I found myself being drawn into the film from the very start. And I found myself really caring about this family. I especially connected to the mother, daughter relationship...The older sister, younger brother relationship was touching with it's simply, yet telling moments.
These people, even though removed from us by 60 years in time and living in a remote region, seemed so much realer than many families depicted in movies today. The director brought out their shades of humanity. I feel like I've meet these people.
I noticed a very important name during the title credits...Ravi Shankar. Beatle fans will recognize him. I loved his music and the way the soundtrack was used in the film..powerful when needed, subtle when required and absent when quietness told the story. Cinematography was done very well too.
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
Director: Satyajit RayWriters: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay(novel), Satyajit Ray(screenplay)
Cast: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Banerjee
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Synopsis: A poor priest strives to make a better life for his family who verily have enough food to eat. He leaves his remote village to search work in Bengal. Leaving his family to endure hardships.
About: Pather Panchali is constantly rated as one of the most important films made! That's saying a lot as supposedly the director and his cinematographer had never made a film until this one!
The first of the Apu trilogy films all directed by Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and Apur Sansar (1959).
Review: I found myself being drawn into the film from the very start. And I found myself really caring about this family. I especially connected to the mother, daughter relationship...The older sister, younger brother relationship was touching with it's simply, yet telling moments.
These people, even though removed from us by 60 years in time and living in a remote region, seemed so much realer than many families depicted in movies today. The director brought out their shades of humanity. I feel like I've meet these people.
I noticed a very important name during the title credits...Ravi Shankar. Beatle fans will recognize him. I loved his music and the way the soundtrack was used in the film..powerful when needed, subtle when required and absent when quietness told the story. Cinematography was done very well too.