The Home and the World

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The Home and the World ★★★½ Ghare Baire 1984

Another masterpiece from India's Ray, this film deals with a sheltered Indian woman who falls in love with her husband's friend and becomes politically committed in the turmoil of 1907-08. Based on Rabindranath Tagore's novel. In Bengali with English subtitles. 130m/C VHS . IN Victor Banerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee; D: Satyajit Ray.