Regardless of what one thinks of David Lean and his old fashioned style, the results here - save perhaps for the casting of Alec Guinness as a Hindu professor - are exquisite.
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04/24/08
A Passage to India (1984)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:17
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.3/10
Synopsis: David Lean returned to filmmaking after a 14-year absence to direct this award-winning adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel. Adela Quested (Judy Davis), a young and spirited Englishwoman, travels to... [More]
Starring: Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness
Director: David Lean
Reviews for A Passage to India
1 - 20 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Lean's visually appealing film frequently connects as a social satire and a mystical melodrama of transgressors looking for footholds in psychically threatening territory.
04/21/08
Lean isn't on his A-game here, but the film isn't bad.
04/17/08
Though not flawless, Lean's swan song is an intelligent adaptation of Forster's complex novel about racil prejudice and sexual repression, flaunting wonderful perfromances from the two leads, Judy Davis and particularly Dame Peggy Ashcroft.
03/19/08
Epic, briliantly photographed, but slow David Lean drama.
03/08/08
Lean does an excellent job of conveying the repressive nature of British society captured in the novel.
11/06/07
The film, for all Lean’s innate elegance, is strangely remote and unmoving. It could easily have been a Merchant-Ivory film.
11/06/07
Top CriticWhile the storytelling is rather toothless, A Passage to India is certainly well worth watching for fans of the director's epic style.
11/06/07
David Lean's studied, plodding, overanalytic direction manages to kill most of the meaning in E.M. Forster's haunting novel of cultural collision in colonial India.
11/06/07
An impeccably faithful, beautifully played and occasionally languorous adaptation of E.M. Forster's classic novel.
11/06/07
Top CriticNot for literary purists, but if you like your entertainment well tailored, then feel the quality and the width.
06/24/06
Maybe a little too stately, but still a powerful and beautiful film.
04/13/06
No review available.
12/15/04
Forster's novel is one of the literary landmarks of this century, and now David Lean has made it into one of the greatest screen adaptations I have ever seen.
10/23/04
Top CriticNo review available.
08/22/03
No review available.
08/21/03
The film is very much 'a full theatrical meal,' and one that conveys a lot of 'the multiplicity of life' one seldom sees on the screen these days.
05/20/03
Top CriticNo review available.
07/30/02
No review available.
07/26/02
A literary riddle that every viewer is challenged to decipher in light of his or her own perception of human passion and prejudice.
03/16/02
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