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A Passage To India [1984]
from MGM Entertainment
starring Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness
directed by David Lean

Features:

• Dubbed
• PAL
• Widescreen

Editorial Review:

A Passage to India, David Lean's adaptation of EM Forster's mysterious tale of racism in colonial India, turned out to be the master director'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 travelling 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

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Disappointed
  I heard quite a bit about the book, so started reading it. Never really got into it so decided to rent the film out (as you do)...although i have to say, i really was disappointed.
  I thought the story was mediocre, the start and middle was quite good, it was like a big build up to something. Something like an unexpected twist; although i waited and waited..then it was over.
  I was left thinking, is that it??
  

• What is not seen is as important as what is seen.
  I've enjoyed this film from the first time I saw it. But as important as it is to note the culture-clash evident in the film (and likely in Forster's novel), it's important to note the absence of another culture-clash. In modern-day India, there is a lot of angst between the Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh religious populations ... angst that was likely subdued during the Raj period of British colonial domination. And, if David Lean's production was an accurate portrayal of Forster's novel, it's interesting to note... more info

• Weird, but compelling
  A one-sided view of the British Raj at its worst, exploring the ralationships between the Indians and the British. It's emotionall and highly charged in a slightly strange and obsessive, but typically Forster way.

• "India forces one to come face to face with oneself."
  In David Lean's last film, his adaptation of the 1924 novel by E. M. Forster, he abandons Forster's strong moral and political stand on the damaging effects of colonialism in India, in favor of a wider ranging, panoramic love story. Although the novel centers on the friendship between the charming and sociable Dr. Aziz (Victor Banerjee) and Briton Richard Fielding (James Fox), one of the few British functionaries who appreciates the Indians as people, Lean focuses instead on Adela Quested's search for... more info

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