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Article: `APU' UNFOLDS IN SUBTLE MOMENTS.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- March 29, 1996
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Byline: Robert Denerstein Rocky Mountain News Film Critic
The World of Apu
Grade A
Apu, Soumitra Chatterjee; Aparna, Sarmila Tagore; Pulu, Swapan Mukherjee; Kajal, Alok Chakravarti; Sasinaryan, Dhiresh Majumdar. Based on the novel by Bibhutibhusan Banerjee. Written and directed by Satyajit Ray. Bengali with English subtitles. Unrated: For one week at the Chez Artiste, as part of the Satyajit Ray series.
Who's it for? Art film lovers.
The movie opens with a poor university graduate living in a rundown room in Calcutta. He reads, studies, works on stories and begins a novel. Sometimes, when it rains, he leaps onto the tiny ...