AT HOME: Apur Sansar, or World of Apu (Apu #3) (1959) Satyajit Ray @ Abe's Place

We'll be finishing the trilogy. Attendance is limited.

WHO CAN ATTEND: People who have previously attended one of our watch parties, meaning I know and have met you.

WHERE: I live near Town Center, Virginia Beach. RSVP and I'll send the address.

Movie info:

RUNTIME: 106 minutes

RATED: PG-13

SYNOPSIS (via Criterion): By the time Apur Sansar was released, Satyajit Ray had directed not only the first two Apu films but also the masterpiece The Music Room, and was well on his way to becoming a legend. This extraordinary final chapter brings our protagonist’s journey full circle. Apu is now in his early twenties, out of college, and hoping to live as a writer. Alongside his professional ambitions, the film charts his romantic awakening, which occurs as the result of a most unlikely turn of events, and his eventual, fraught fatherhood. Featuring soon-to-be Ray regulars Soumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore in star-making performances, and demonstrating Ray’s ever more impressive skills as a crafter of pure cinematic imagery, Apur Sansar is a moving conclusion to this monumental trilogy.

BLURBS:
"Because Ray resolutely refuses to force the pace or the emotion, this is one of the most beautiful love affairs in all cinema; and the tragedy that follows has all the anguish of the blow Apu gives to the messenger who brings the news." - John Gillett, Sight and Sound

"The most extraordinary passage in the three films comes in the third, when Apu, now a college student, goes with his best friend, Pulu, to attend the wedding of Pulu’s cousin." - Roger Ebert

"An impressive capstone is put not only upon a touching human drama but also upon the development of a genuine artist's skill. [...] Mr. Ray's command of the telling image and of tempo is superior in this film, and he seems to have elicited from his actors as fine performances as he has ever had." - Bosley Crowther, The New York Times