Cover image for Devi = The goddess
Title:
Devi = The goddess
Alternate title:
English title: Goddess
Series Number:
1102.
Summary:
Master filmmaker Satyajit Ray explores the conflict between fanaticism and free will in Devi (The Goddess), issuing a subversively modern challenge to religious orthodoxy and patriarchal power structures. In the waning days of mid-nineteenth-century India's feudal system, after his son leaves for Kolkata to complete his studies, a wealthy rural landowner is seized by the notion that his beloved daughter-in-law (a hauntingly sad-eyed Sharmila Tagore) is the reincarnation of the goddess Kali a delusion that proves devastating to the young woman and those around her. The opulently stylized compositions and the chiaroscuro lighting by cinematographer Subrata Mitra heighten the entrancing expressionistic intensity of this domestic tragedy, making for an experience that is both sublime and shattering.
General Note:
Based on the story by Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.

Full screen.

Special features: New program featuring interviews with Sharmila Tagore and Soumitra Chatterjee recorded in 2013; new video essay by Meheli Sen; essay by Devika Girish.
Edition:
DVD special edition.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Publication Date:
2021

1960
ISBN:
9781681438894
Publication Information:
[New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]
Call Number:
DVD DEVI
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