Court (2014)

Slo naslov: -

Država: Indija

Leto: 2014

Dolžina: 116' ,  Imdb

Žanri: Drama  

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Chaitanya Tamhane

Scenarij: Chaitanya Tamhane

Igrajo: Vira Sathidar, Usha Bane, Vivek Gomber, Pradeep Joshi, Shirish Pawar, Geetanjali Kulkarni 

[ENG]

[Sinopsis]

Chaitanya Tamhane's Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the "people's poet," is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide. His trial is a ridiculous and harrowing display of institutional incompetence, with endless procedural delays, coached witnesses for the prosecution, and obsessive privileging of arcane colonial law over reason and mercy. What truly distinguishes Court, however, is Tamhane's brilliant ensemble cast of professional and nonprofessional actors; his affecting mixture of comedy and tragedy; and his naturalist approach to his characters and to Indian society as a whole, rich with complexity and contradiction. (C) Zeitgeist

[About]

Court is a 2014 Indian courtroom drama film, written and directed by Chaitanya Tamhane in his directorial debut. Featuring a cast of newcomers, the film examines the Indian legal system through the trial of an ageing folk singer at a Sessions Court in Mumbai.

Court premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival on 4 September 2014, where it won the Best Film in the Horizons category and the Luigi De Laurentiis (Lion Of The Future) award for Tamhane. Jay Weissberg of Variety described the film as "an impressive debut that flays alive India’s judicial system thanks to an intelligent, superbly understated script." The film went on to win 18 other awards at film festivals, including honours at the Mumbai, Vienna, Antalya, and Singapore film festivals. In 2015, the film won the Best Feature Film award at the 62nd National Film Awards, which honoured films released in 2014.

Court theatrically released in India on 17 April 2015. The film was selected as India's official submission for the 88th Annual Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category but it was not nominated.

[Festivals, awards]

• 2014, 71st Venice International Film Festival (Orizzonti) - Best Film award, Luigi De Laurentiis Award
• 2014, 16th Mumbai Film Festival - Golden Gateway of India for Best Film, Silver Gateway of India - Best Director
• 2015, India's official entry for the Academy Awards-2016

                    

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