Nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar, Deepa Mehta’s humanist epic melds with her previous movies, EARTH (1998) and FIRE (1998), to form a trilogy worthy of her Indian role model, Satyajit Ray.
India, 1938. Chuyia (Sarala), a mischievous but uncomprehending child bride who can't even recall her own marriage ceremony, becomes widowed at the age of seven. Tradition dictates that she can throw herself on a funeral pyre, marry the deceased’s younger brother or accept the life as a shunned outcast exile at a house for discarded widows. In this monastic outpost, the residents live according to strict rules mposed by the society that despises them, and m...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
114 mins