A Passage to India [Blu-ray]
by David Lean
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Director: David LeanBrand: Sony
Performer: Judy Davis
Performer: Peggy Ashcroft
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Hindi (Original Language); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.77:1
Running Time: 164 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-04-15
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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- Condition: New
- Format: Blu-ray
- AC-3; Collector's Edition; Dolby; Dubbed; Subtitled; Widescreen
Blu-ray Reviews of A Passage to India [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: Not Lean at the top of his game
Summary: 3 Stars
After the bad reviews deservedly garnered by "Ryan's Daughter" Mr. Lean decided to take his ball and go home for 15 years. We can only speculate on what great movies could have been made during that time (such as Mr. Eastwood has been doing in his old age). Luckily for us, though, he decided to come back for one last film, "A Passage to India", before he passed away in 1991. The trouble with greatness, however, is that once you achieve it, it's always expected. And there's no doubt Mr. Lean achieved it three times in a row with "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Dr. Zhivago", and previously with "Brief Encounter" and "Great Expectations".
"A Passage to India" is not a great movie. I'd say it's about on a par with "Summertime" made by Lean in the mid-fifties. It's overlong and you come away from it wondering what exactly happened. I suppose that makes for interesting after-movie conversation but it's nevertheless frustrating to someone wanting more clarity. The production values, however, are exemplary as is the acting. I'm not sure why Maurice Jarre won the Oscar for the music. It's also not as great as his work on "Lawrence of Arabia" or "Dr. Zhivago".
Description of A Passage to India [Blu-ray]
PASSAGE TO INDIA - Blu-Ray MovieThis adaptation of E.M. Forster's mysterious tale of British racism in colonial India turned out to be master director David Lean's final film. Subtle and grand at the same time, Lean's adaptation is faithful to the book, rendering its blend of the mystical and the all-too human with exquisite precision. Judy Davis plays a young British woman traveling in India with her fiancé's mother. While visiting a tourist attraction, she has a frightening moment in a cave--one that she eventually spins from an instant of mental meltdown into a tale of a physical attack that ruins several lives. Lean captures Forster's sense of awe at the kind of ageless wisdom and inexplicable phenomena to be encountered in India, as well as the British tendency to dismiss it all as savage, rather than simply different. --Marshall Fine
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