After his two attempts at the international glory with English-language movies “The Sense of an Ending” (2014) and “Our Souls at Night” (2017), Ritesh Batra is back to the territory he is most familiar with, the heart-warming Indian romance he created with his feature debut “The Lunchbox” (2013) which became a huge festival hit. His newest film, “Photograph” (2019) walks pretty much the same ground, content-, execution-, and festival distribution-wise. After its world premiere at Sundance last year and European premiere at Berlinale, it went on an extended, seemingly never-ending festival tour, parallel with the wide cinema release. Better late than never, could be said for its screening at this year’s online edition of Zagreb Film Festival and the review here.
Our man Rafi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is a forty-something street photographer whose pitch to the tourists at The Gateway of India is that the photograph is an all-senses memory experience: once they see the photograph,...
Our man Rafi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is a forty-something street photographer whose pitch to the tourists at The Gateway of India is that the photograph is an all-senses memory experience: once they see the photograph,...
- 11/18/2020
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
Here is the Photograph movie review. Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra, the Indian-American - German coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama is written, co-produced and directed by The Lunch Box fame Ritesh Batra. The movie is hitting the theatres today - March 15 2019 after having its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and the European premiere at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. Is Ritesh Batra able to repeat the magic again in his come back to India? find out in Photograph movie review?
Immediate reaction when the movie ends
Ritesh Batra brings the audience and his lead characters in ?the mood for love? but fails in making them falling in love with Photograph.
The Story of Photograph
A struggling Mumbai street photographer Rafiq (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), is under pressure to get married by his grandmother played by Farrukh Jaffar. Rafiq convinces a stranger Miloni (Sanya Malhotra) to pose as his fianc?e during a family visit.
Immediate reaction when the movie ends
Ritesh Batra brings the audience and his lead characters in ?the mood for love? but fails in making them falling in love with Photograph.
The Story of Photograph
A struggling Mumbai street photographer Rafiq (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), is under pressure to get married by his grandmother played by Farrukh Jaffar. Rafiq convinces a stranger Miloni (Sanya Malhotra) to pose as his fianc?e during a family visit.
- 3/15/2019
- GlamSham
Six years after the international crossover success of “The Lunchbox,” along comes “Photograph” to prove, whatever Thomas Wolfe may think, that you can go home again. Writer-director Ritesh Batra’s first Indian film since his debut feature has the same quiet streak of wistful sentimentality that made “The Lunchbox” so globally beloved — and, for that matter, the same softly-softly humanity found in his two subsequent English-language efforts, “The Sense of an Ending” and “Our Souls at Night.” Whether roaming the streets of Mumbai or the plains of Colorado, Batra’s filmmaking has remained markedly consistent in tone and texture: You’d be hard pressed to find anyone making nicer films in world cinema right now.
That’s an easy quality to underrate, as is the modest but careful craftsmanship and muted but honest performance style that makes “Photograph” — a film itself about the rewards of patiently building on first impressions — a winsome diversion.
That’s an easy quality to underrate, as is the modest but careful craftsmanship and muted but honest performance style that makes “Photograph” — a film itself about the rewards of patiently building on first impressions — a winsome diversion.
- 1/28/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Many who hear about Affluenza may at first assume that the movie is a look inside the thoroughly depressing case of Ethan Couch, a Texas teen who drove drunk and caused a crash, killing four and injuring two. During his trial, a psychologist argued Couch was a victim of “affluenza,” as the product of rich parents who never set boundaries for him or taught him to understand the relationship between actions and consequences. The case made national headlines when the judge sentenced him to ten years of probation and therapy in a cushy rehab facility – a sentence that defied basic ideas of both logic and justice with its leniency.
Unfortunately, Affluenza does not explore that inflammatory case – however, its teenage subjects are certainly comparable to Couch. Set in pre-recession 2008 on privileged Long Island, the film follows an aspiring photographer named Fisher (Ben Rosenfield) who comes to stay with his upper-class relatives after his parents divorce.
Unfortunately, Affluenza does not explore that inflammatory case – however, its teenage subjects are certainly comparable to Couch. Set in pre-recession 2008 on privileged Long Island, the film follows an aspiring photographer named Fisher (Ben Rosenfield) who comes to stay with his upper-class relatives after his parents divorce.
- 7/11/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
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